Exploitation Tag Archive

Awards, Live Action

Adam J. Graves’ Oscar Short ‘Anuja’ Is a Powerful Portrait of Sisterhood & Resilience in Delhi’s Garment Industry

Adam J. Graves reveals how he balanced the dark realities of fast fashion's child labour with moments of joy, resilience and hope in his Oscar nominated short.

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Animation, Documentary

How a Sextortion Scam Inspired Eugene Kolb’s Imaginative Exploration of Masturbation Shame ‘ur heinous habit’

Eugene Kolb speaks about striking the right balance between the salacious subject matter and the correlating animations of his doc about self-gratification.

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Live Action

Maegan Houang Depicts the Genesis of America’s Asian Exploitation in Drama ‘Astonishing Little Feet’

Maegan Houang returns to DN and explains how she used confronting POV shots to challenge the viewer in her potent historical drama short.

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Live Action

An Actor Auditions for a Secretive Project in Hugo De Sousa’s Satire ‘Je Ne Suis Pas Une Star de

Hugo De Sousa returns to DN and tells us how he recreated the claustrophobic, exploitative atmosphere of an audition for his uncomfortable satirical short.

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Live Action, Premiere

Will Kenning Offers a Fresh Perspective on the Horrors of County Lines Drug Gangs in Dance Drama ‘Tap Boy’

Will Kenning chats to DN about combining the world of tap with the grim reality of exploitation perpetrated by drug gangs for his compelling drama short.

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Live Action, Premiere

Sachin Dheeraj’s ‘Men in Blue’ Viscerally Exposes the Modern Slave Labour Inflicted on Immigrant Workers

Sachin Dheeraj dissects the visual language he used to depict the deplorable story of men stripped of their dignity for profit by modern slavery.

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Live Action, Premiere

Sylvain Cruiziat Brutally Skewers the Privileged Preaching of the Art World in Unsettling Satire ‘The Raft’

Sylvain Cruiziat talks to DN about critiquing the art world's self-serving response to the refugee crises in his blistering metafictional satire.

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN369: Henry Blake Exposes the Cruel Exploitation of Britain’s Youth by Drugs Gangs in Shocking Debut ‘County Lines’

Director Henry Blake reveals the many ways his proof-of-concept short paved the way for the creation of his powerful debut feature 'County Lines'.

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