Migrant Dreams

Migrant Dreams
Directed byMin Sook Lee
Written byMin Sook Lee
Produced byMin Sook Lee
Lisa Valencia-Svensson
CinematographyIris Ng
Edited byDave Kazala
Music byKen Myhr
Production
company
Tiger Spirit Productions
Release date
Running time
88 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Migrant Dreams is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Min Sook Lee and released in 2016.[1] 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.[2]

It was Lee's second documentary film about migrant workers in Canada, following 2003's El Contrato.[3]

The film premiered at the 2016 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival,[1] and was subsequently screened at the 2016 DOXA Documentary Film Festival.[4] It was commercially distributed as a television broadcast, airing September 14, 2016 on TVOntario.[5]

  1. ^ a b Jacobs, Jonas (May 1, 2016). "POV Profile: Min Sook Lee". Point of View.
  2. ^ Victoria Ahearn, "Plight of Canada's migrant workers profiled in 'Migrant Dreams' documentary". Canadian Press, May 6, 2016.
  3. ^ Vik Kirsch, "Migrant workers decry 'slavery'". Guelph Mercury, October 18, 2014.
  4. ^ Marsha Lederman, "Amazing Canadian story slated to open DOXA". The Globe and Mail, April 7, 2016.
  5. ^ "Min Sook Lee's Migrant Dreams Premieres on TVO September 14". Canada NewsWire, August 17, 2016.