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Directed by Shannon Service and Jeffrey Waldron, the film delves into Thailand's fishing industry and its nearly 4,000 slaves who are starved and held in cages at sea.
Paul Allen’s Vulcan Prods. has signed on to produce the new feature documentary Ghost Fleet, which chronicles the global human trafficking network of fishing slaves that serves the global seafood market.
Directed by Shannon Service and Jeffrey Waldron, the film delves into Thailand's fishing industry, which supplies a large portion of the world’s seafood. The country’s giant fishing fleet is chronically short of up to 60,000 fishermen per year, leaving captains scrambling to find crew. Human traffickers have seized upon the labor shortage, selling captives from Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos and across Southeast Asia for a few hundred dollars each. Once at sea, the men often go months, or even years, without setting foot on land. Beaten, starved and held in cages, men are forced to work for little or no pay. As many as 4,000 slaves currently work in the Thailand’s seafood industry. The food winds up in the supply chains of corporate food giants and ends up in American stores as pet food, fresh and frozen fish and shrimp.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...kle-human-trafficking-doc-ghost-fleet-1028919
Paul Allen’s Vulcan Prods. has signed on to produce the new feature documentary Ghost Fleet, which chronicles the global human trafficking network of fishing slaves that serves the global seafood market.
Directed by Shannon Service and Jeffrey Waldron, the film delves into Thailand's fishing industry, which supplies a large portion of the world’s seafood. The country’s giant fishing fleet is chronically short of up to 60,000 fishermen per year, leaving captains scrambling to find crew. Human traffickers have seized upon the labor shortage, selling captives from Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos and across Southeast Asia for a few hundred dollars each. Once at sea, the men often go months, or even years, without setting foot on land. Beaten, starved and held in cages, men are forced to work for little or no pay. As many as 4,000 slaves currently work in the Thailand’s seafood industry. The food winds up in the supply chains of corporate food giants and ends up in American stores as pet food, fresh and frozen fish and shrimp.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...kle-human-trafficking-doc-ghost-fleet-1028919
