''Turning Point'' (alternative title "Dying To Go To School") is a 2009
documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in te ...
by Richard Stanley Productions and the
FIA Foundation for the Automobile and Society The FIA Foundation for the Automobile and Society is a foundation which undertakes " ..research into public policy issues relating to the automobile’s interaction with society. We support initiatives that improve the environmental performance of ...
.
The documentary features
Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh Choo Kheng, ( ; born 6 August 1962) is a Malaysian actress. Credited as Michelle Khan in her early Hong Kong films, she rose to fame in the 1990s after starring in a series of Hong Kong action films where she performed her own ...
("Global
Ambassador
An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or s ...
for the
Make Roads Safe campaign") while she "advocates for road injury to be recognised as a global public health and development priority".
The documentary follows her to
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring coun ...
,
Malaysia
Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federal constitutional monarchy consists of thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two regions: Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo's East Mal ...
,
Vietnam
Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making ...
and other countries.
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External links
The film wholly available to be watched on its Official HomepageChinese toddler left for dead in hit-and-run crash dies
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Make Roads Safe Official Homepage
Documentary films about road transport
Road safety campaigns
2009 films
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