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.
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.
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.
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".
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