DIRECCIÓN: Ed Ou, Will N. Miller
GUION: Michael Hsu
FOTOGRAFÍA: Ed Ou, Will N. Miller, Ben Blankenship
PRODUCCIÓN: Will N. Miller
EDICIÓN: Will N. Miller
SONIDO: William Ryan Fritch
Synopsis
On any given night, tens of thousands of fishermen in China’s distant-water squid fleet perform an industrial ballet thousands of miles out on the high seas. With unprecedented access to the extremely remote fishing grounds, this is a poetic exploration of the motivations of the fishermen, the brutality of systemic labor abuses in the Chinese fishing industry, and the destruction wrought by the commodification of people and nature in our globalized world.
Ed Ou is a visual journalist and documentary filmmaker who recently won an Emmy Award for his coverage of the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean also in collaboration with The Outlaw Ocean Project. His documentaries have been internationally awarded. His photojournalism has been recognized at World Press Photo Awards and he contributed to a Staff Public Service Pulitzer Prize for The Washington Post. Will N. Miller is a documentary filmmaker who focuses on environmental conflict, migration, and human rights. The first feature film he produced, The territory (Alex Pritz), premiered at Sundance, where it won two awards and was shortlisted for the Academy Awards. The short documentary Nuisance bear (Jack Weisman, Gabriela O. Vanden) was also shortlisted for the Academy Awards. He has three Emmy nominations and one win from previous projects.