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Ghosts Details

2006

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Starring	Ai Qin Lin, Zhan Yu, Zhe Wei
Director	Nick Broomfield
Genres	Documentary, Drama

Ghosts

Ai Qin, a young Chinese girl from Fujian, China, borrows $25,000 to pay Snakeheads to smuggle her into the UK illegally so she can support her son and family back in China. Once in the UK, she becomes another one of three million migrant workers that are the bedrock of its food supply chain, construction and hospitality industries. She lives with eleven other Chinese in a two-bedroom suburban house. With illegally forged work permits, they work in factories preparing food for British supermarkets. In their search for better paying jobs to repay their debts, they end up cockling in Morecambe Bay at night. On February 5th 2004 twenty three Chinese drowned in Morecambe, their families in China are still paying off their debts.

Starring	Ai Qin Lin, Zhan Yu, Zhe Wei
Director	Nick Broomfield
Studio	LACE GROUP
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 38 mins
Certificate
Genres	Documentary, Drama
Language	DVD: English, Mandarin
Subtitles	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 2006 To Rent: DVD: 09 Apr 2007

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- âGhostsâ are the nicknames given to theÂ British by Chinese immigrant workers in Nick Broomfieldâs devised... read more on Time Out
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  Making a drama out of a crisis
  
  There is a small band of British filmmakers (Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Michael Winterbottom) who you can always rely on to produce edgy, relevant and inventive ... read more »
  
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  Sad story, worthwhile concept, very poor execution
  
  Don't bother with this one - you can get much better informed on this tragedy by simply reading an article or by watching the documentary instead. The ... read more »
  
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  Really good viewing
  
  This film was very good viewing and helped with an assignmetn I was completing for an OU course. Interesting true story
  
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  Essential viewing. Amazing.
  
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  Ai Qin, a young Chinese girl from Fujian, China, borrows $25,000 to pay Snakeheads to smuggle her into the UK illegally so she can support her son and family back in China. Once in the UK, she becomes another one of three million migrant workers that are the bedrock of its food supply chain, ...