10min | 2021 | Documentary, Short As censorship, both state-sponsored and within the private sphere, ratchets up to levels unimaginable in the past, many are seeking out alternative voices when it comes to cinema. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has in recent times steadily amped up both its purging of foreign influences and the muffling of its massive citizenry. Fortunately, in this age of decentralized digital media, it’s becoming harder and harder for totalitarian regimes to stifle important information about the human rights atrocities they commit. Directed by Mathias Magnason (and co-written by Levi Browde, Jan Lokos, and Magnason), the 10-minute mini-documentary “Defiance in the Kingdom of Fake News” is one of many films benefiting from this free flow of information about human rights abuses. The film opens with quite an impact as we see a young Chinese man, Lei Ming, awkwardly pacing back and forth in a room at …