Jose tells me his sister, Tara Illenberger, has just completed directing and producing a new movie, Brutus, a story about the exploitation of child labourers in the logging industry, on the Philippine island of Mindoro. Operating discreetly, the loggers forego the use of large transport equipment that could cut deep into the forests to bring the wood to the lowlands. Instead, the loggers employ juvenile (teenagers) labor. These ... Read full entry
Brutus the human logging machines of Mindoro
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 10 September, 2008 to the movies subset
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