- Source: Migrant Dreams
Migrant Dreams is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Min Sook Lee and released in 2016. The film profiles human rights violations against migrant workers from Indonesia who were working as farm labourers in Southwestern Ontario under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.
It was Lee's second documentary film about migrant workers in Canada, following 2003's El Contrato.
The film premiered at the 2016 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, and was subsequently screened at the 2016 DOXA Documentary Film Festival. It was commercially distributed as a television broadcast, airing September 14, 2016 on TVOntario.
Awards
At DOXA, the film received an honorable mention from the Colin Low Award jury.
In 2017 the film won the Canadian Hillman Prize, which honours journalists whose work identifies important social and economic issues in Canada, and the Canadian Association of Journalists Award for Labour Reporting.
The film was shortlisted for the Donald Brittain Award for Best Social or Political Documentary at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018.
References
External links
Migrant Dreams at IMDb
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Pribumi-Nusantara
- Dubai
- Pekerja asing di Arab Saudi
- Izabella Nilsson Jarvandi
- Italia-Amerika Serikat
- International Dublin Literary Award
- Migrant Dreams
- El Contrato
- Io capitano
- Dave Kazala
- Min Sook Lee
- Central American migrant caravans
- 2015 European migrant crisis
- Iris Ng
- Martha's Vineyard migrant airlift
- Mexico–United States border crisis
