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Becky Anderson examines a documentary which explores the legal, moral and ethical aspects of the human organ trade. Becky Anderson examines a documentary which explores the legal, ...
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Tales from the Organ Trade: Directed by Ric Esther Bienstock. With Chas Bruns, David Cronenberg. A look into the underground world of trafficking human body parts.
Articles about the film “Organ Trade” doc wins Edward R. Murrow Award. By Manori Ravindran. Ric Esther Bienstock’s Tales from the Organ Trade and Mark Levinson’s Particle Fever are among the documentaries nominated for the Grierson Trust’s 2014 British Documentary Awards...
Synopsis. TALES FROM THE ORGAN TRADE is a gritty and unflinching descent into the shadowy world of black-market organ trafficking: the street-level brokers, the rogue surgeons, the impoverished men and women who are willing to sacrifice a slice of their own bodies for a quick payday, and the desperate patients who face the agonizing choice of obeying the law or saving their lives.
Making The Film. When I set out to make Tales From the Organ Trade I thought I was embarking on a very black and white story of desperation and exploitation - the story of affluent first world patients in dire need of a kidney, travelling abroad to buy an organ from an impoverished, but equally desperate, victim from the third world.
