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Escaping Eritrea is a 2021 English documentary episode produced and directed by Evan Williams.[1] The co-producers are Daffodil Altan, Priyanka Boghani, Daniel Edge, Max Green, Erika Howard, Michelle Mizner and Evan Williams. The real footage was taken by Michael, who was also a refugee from Eritrea who moved to Europe. He put the camera in a jacket pocket with a hole and began filming what was going on around him.[2][3]
The documentary based on the refugee crisis between 2015 and 2016 occurred across the Mediterranean where large groups coming across into Europe from Eritrea.[4] It took five years for the investigations and some secretly documented footage inside a prison also included in the documentary.[5] It made its television premier on 4 May 2021 on PBS through Frontline in United States and later telecast in Channel 4 in the United Kingdom.[6][7]
- Isias Afwerki - President of Eritrea (archive footage)
- Priyanka Boghani - Reporter
- Sarah Childress - Reporter
- Yemane Gebreab - Adviser to president of Eritrea (archive footage)
- Sheila B. Keetharuth - Former U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Eritrea
- Sophie Okonedo - Narrator (voice)
- Mike Smith - Chair Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in Eritrea (archive footage)
- Hanna Petros Solomon - Eritrean refugee and activist
- Evan Williams - Reporter
- Judy Woodruff
- Katie Worth - Reporter
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