 Cast: Ai Qin Lin
Director: Nick Broomfield
Genre:Docudrama
Language: English, Mandarin
Release Date:6 August 2007
Running Time:NIL
Movie Code:0083
Distributor:GVP
| | Special preview screening of GHOSTS in aid of charities Migrant
Voices and Transient Workers Count, Too.
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Monday, August 6th |
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7.00 pm |
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GV VivoCity |
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Screening of GHOSTS feature presentation followed by a panel
discussion on migrant workers issues. |
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The film tells the story of Ai Qin, a Chinese immigrant to the UK. It follows her from China to the UK and looks at the work she does in the food industry. It reveals that the UK's food industry is heavily dependent on underpaid, expolititive, migrant labour. Eventually she starts work cockle-picking at Morecambe Bay. The film begins and ends with the 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster, in which 23 illegal workers lost their lives while cockle-picking.
The screening will be followed by a discussion on the issues raised by the
film, lead by Braema Mathiaparanam, and is organised by the British Council,
Singapore Film Society, Migrant Voices, Transient Workers Count, Too and
Golden Village.
All revenues from ticket sales will be donated to Migrant Voices and TWC2.
Partner:
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MIGRANT VOICES is a registered community-based arts society that conducts
art activities with and for the migrant community in Singapore, especially
the migrant workers from lower income groups.
http://www.migrantvoices.org
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TRANSIENT WORKERS COUNT TOO (TWC2) is a society concerned with the welfare
of foreign migrant workers. TWC2 conducts research, undertakes public
education projects, and offers advice and practical help migrant workers.
http://twc2.org.sg
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BRITISH COUNCIL is the UK's international organisation for educational
opportunities and cultural relations. The British Council's purpose is to
build mutually beneficial relationships between people in the UK and other
countries and to increase appreciation of the UK's creative ideas and
achievements.
http://www.britishcouncil.org.sg
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The SINGAPORE FILM SOCIETY is Singapore's longest-established organization
promoting the appreciation of film as a medium of art and entertainment,
conceptualizing, sourcing, programming, marketing and managing a year-round
line-up of quality film screenings that now averages over 200 movies every
year.
http://www.sfs.org.sg/
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