# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ahn-chol
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:28:24.907Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ahn-chol"
name: "Ahn Chol"
slug: "ahn-chol"
description: "Ahn Chol is the pseudonym of a North Korean freelance journalist who shot the footage for the film Children of the Secret State, a movie about the condition of orphans in North Korea. He won the Rory Peck Award in 2001 for his work."
tagline: "Pseudonymous North Korean freelance journalist"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1971"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.471778666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1818534/"
    handle:    "nm1818534"
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahn_Chol"
    title: "Ahn Chol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%86_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "اهن تشول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahn_Chol"
    title: "Ahn Chol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%89%E5%93%B2_(%E8%A8%98%E8%80%85)"
    title: "安哲 (記者)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Cshol"
    title: "An Cshol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahn_Chol"
    title: "Ahn Chol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q552539"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump