“In this sobering, moving drama, a Cambodian teenager runs away from home and is sold into slavery on a Thai fishing boat.”
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Logline: An innocent Cambodian boy is sold to a Thai broker and enslaved on a fishing trawler. As fellow slaves are tortured and killed around him, he starts to wonder if his only hope of freedom is to become as violent as his captors.
Screenwriter/Director - Rodd Rathjen
Producers - Samantha Jennings, Kristina Ceyton and Rita Walsh (Causeway Films)
Cast - Sarm Heng, Thanawut Kasro and Ros Mony
Film Festivals: Berlin International Film Festival (Panorama) World Premiere (2019), Melbourne International Film Festival (2019), International Film Festival and Awards Macau (2019) amongst others.
Awards:
December 2019 - WINNER - BEST ACTOR (INTERNATIONAL COMP) & MACAU AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD - International Film Festival and Awards Macau
December 2019 - WINNER - BEST INDIE FILM - Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts
November 2019 - WINNER - BEST YOUTH FILM - Asia Pacific Screen Awards
February 2019 - WINNER - ECUMENICAL JURY PRIZE - Berlin International Film Festival - Panorama