Migrant Dreams | |
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Directed by | Min Sook Lee |
Written by | Min Sook Lee |
Produced by | Min Sook Lee Lisa Valencia-Svensson |
Cinematography | Iris Ng |
Edited by | Dave Kazala |
Music by | Ken Myhr |
Production company | Tiger Spirit Productions |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Language | English |
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]