Human Harvest (film)
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| Directed by | Leon Lee |
| Written by | Leon Lee |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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 the accusation that 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.[1]
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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.[2]
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.[2]
Impact
Comments by Peabody Awards judges
According to Peabody Awards judges:[1][3][4]
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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.[2]
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.[5][6][7][8] 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".[9][10][11]
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.[1]
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.[12]
Awards
- 2015, November, AIB Media Excellence Awards, International Investigative Documentary.
- 2015, April, Peabody Awards.
- 2015, Salem Film Fest Awards - "The Michael Sullivan Frontline Award for Journalism in a Documentary Film".[13]
- 2015, Flathead Lake International Cinemafest, "Best Picture-Documentary".[14]
- 2015, Big Muddy Film Festival, Best Documentary Feature.[15]
- 2014, Global film Awards, "Humanitarian Awards: Grand Prize".[16]
- 2014, Indie Fest, "Best of Show" Documentary.[17]
- 2014, Dec, Viewster Online Film Festival, 1st Place.[18]
- 2014, Nov, Canada Hamilton Film Festival, Best Documentary.[19]
See also
- Organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China
- Kilgour–Matas report
- Persecution of Falun Gong
- Free China: The Courage to Believe
References
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External links
- Official website
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Human Harvest at IMDb
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- Official Trailer
- Killed for Organs: China's Secret State Transplant Business (2012) YouTube video, 8 minutes
- Organ Harvesting in China (August 2006) YouTube video, 6 minutes
- Organ Harvesting in China - Between Life and Death (2011) YouTube video, 52 minutes
