Squid Fleet

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, SQUID FLEET 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. It is based on two years of rigorous investigative journalism from the Pulitzer Prize-winning team of The Outlaw Ocean Project.

Director Biography

Ed Ou is a visual journalist and documentary filmmaker. He recently won an Emmy Award for his coverage of the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean also in collaboration with The Outlaw Ocean Project. He was named the Documentary Storyteller of the Year by POYi. Will N. Miller is a documentary filmmaker and co-founder of Documist, a production company based in NYC and Toronto. His work mostly focuses on environmental conflict, migration, and human rights.