''Turning Point'' (alternative title "Dying To Go To School") is a 2009
documentary film
A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...
by Richard Stanley Productions and the
FIA Foundation for the Automobile and Society.
The documentary features
Michelle Yeoh
Yeoh Choo Kheng (; born 6 August 1962), known professionally as Michelle Yeoh (), is a Malaysian actress. In a career spanning over four decades, Yeoh has appeared Michelle Yeoh filmography, in projects encompassing a wide array of genres, a ...
("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 so ...
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 Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...
,
Malaysia
Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...
,
Vietnam
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and other countries.
References
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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