How often do you look at a label on food and see where it came from and really
Much of the seafood in our daily lives from sushi, frozen fish, shrimp cocktail, to the vast amount that goes into pet food was in fact caught by slaves.
As one of the world’s largest seafood exporters with a huge fishing fleet, Thailand needs thousands of fishermen. Yet decades of overfishing in the region has decimated fish stocks. Today the Gulf of Thailand is one of the most barren parts of the ocean in the world. Thai captains now scramble to find crew willing to travel thousands of miles to find fish.
Human traffickers have ‘stepped in’ to fill the
Directed by Shannon Service and Jeffrey Waldron, Ghost Fleet is a feature-length documentary that exposes this seafood industry to reveal horrifying stories of how young men are basically held against their will, beaten and enslaved for years.
This hauntingly beautiful documentary takes viewers on a sweeping search of remote Indonesian islands. It tells the stories of the escaped fishermen as they seek out survival. We hear first-hand heartbreaking accounts of these young men as they tell their harrowing stories. Their lives are essentially stolen from them. One man wished to see his mom. One had his arm cut off.
Ghost Fleet follows a small group of activists who risk their lives on remote Indonesian islands to find justice and freedom for the enslaved fishermen who feed the world’s insatiable appetite for seafood.
The strong-willed heroine, Bangkok-based Patima Tungpuchayakul, a Thai abolitionist, has devoted her life to rescuing and returning home these ‘lost’ men who come from Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, and other South East Asian countries.
In the face of illness, death threats, corruption, and complacency, Patima’s fearless determination for justice acts as an inspiration to her nation and the world.
This is a story of survival and redemption.
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