Human Harvest (film)
4 /10 1 Votes4
Genre Documentary, Crime Awards Peabody Award Writer Leon Lee Language English | Director Leon Lee Screenplay Leon Lee Duration Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date 2014 Music director Eli Bennett, Daryl Bennett Cast |
Human harvest trailer
Human Harvest, or Davids and Goliath (Chinese: 活摘,大衛戰紅魔) is a 2014 documentary film, directed by Vancouver filmmaker Leon Lee, which follows the investigative work by Canadian Nobel Peace Prize nominees David Matas and David Kilgour on whether and how state-run hospitals in China harvested and sold organs, by killing tens of thousands of prisoners of conscience, who are mainly Falun Gong practitioners.
Contents
- Human harvest trailer
- Human harvest warning some graphic content
- Production
- Comments by Peabody Awards judges
- News
- Film companies
- Awards
- References
Human harvest warning some graphic content
Production
The film is supported by the Canada Media Fund’s Diverse Languages Program, which supports productions on Canadian diversity. The program funds projects in languages other than English, French, or Canadian Aboriginal languages. Human Harvest was produced originally in Mandarin.
In addition to the work by the filmmaker Leon Lee, two Canadian film companies contributed to the production of the film: Principal of Flying Cloud Productions in Vancouver, and Toronto-based Mark Media.
Comments by Peabody Awards judges
According to Peabody Awards judges:
With powerful testimonials about the intricacies of the trade and the human cost, including interviews with Chinese doctors who confide they’ve been coerced into removing organs from live political prisoners, this is a harrowing exposé of a fiendish system of forced organ donor transplants.
Peabody Awards winners must receive all unanimous support from the 17 members of the Peabody Board of Jurors.
News
On April 7, 2015, Dateline of SBS Australia broadcast the film and urged the Australian Government to do something to help stop illegal organ trade in China. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that the investigators including David Matas and his colleagues are "pushing for the perpetrators to stand before the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity".
In 2015 the Communist Party of China said it would stop harvesting the organs of executed prisoners, an announcement about which the filmmaker Lee is skeptical.
Film companies
Two Canadian film companies, which worked on the documentary, will continue to work on other projects, including an in-depth investigation on the controversies around the Confucius Institutes.
Awards
References
Human Harvest (film) WikipediaHuman Harvest (film) themoviedb.org Human Harvest (film) IMDb