| Human Harvest | |
| Director: | Leon Lee |
| Music: | Daryl Bennett Eli Bennett |
| Studio: | Flying Cloud Productions Inc. |
| Runtime: | 52 minutes |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | English |
Human Harvest is a 2014 documentary film, directed by Vancouver filmmaker Leon Lee, which follows the investigative work by Canadian Nobel Peace Prize nominees David Matas and David Kilgour on whether and how state-run hospitals in China harvested and sold organs by killing tens of thousands of prisoners of conscience, mainly Falun Gong practitioners.
The film is supported by the Canada Media Fund’s Diverse Languages Program, which supports productions on Canadian diversity. The program funds projects in languages other than English, French, or Canadian Aboriginal languages. Human Harvest was produced originally in Mandarin.
In addition to the work by filmmaker Leon Lee, two Canadian film companies contributed to the production of the film: Principal of Flying Cloud Productions in Vancouver, and Toronto-based Mark Media.
According to Peabody Awards judges:
Peabody Awards winners must receive unanimous support from the 17 members of the Peabody Board of Jurors.[1]
On April 7, 2015, Dateline of SBS Australia broadcast the film and urged the Australian Government to do something to help stop illegal organ trade in China. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that the investigators, including David Matas and his colleagues, are "pushing for the perpetrators to stand before the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity".
In 2015, the Chinese Communist Party said it would stop harvesting the organs of executed prisoners, an announcement about which the filmmaker Lee is skeptical.
It is reported that the two Canadian film companies, which worked on the documentary, will continue to work on other projects, including an in-depth investigation on the controversies around the Confucius Institutes.[2]