(1 x 90 / 1 x 60 minutes)
Canada | Color | 5.1 Surround
©2013 Ghosts Media Inc.
The Ghosts In Our Machine
Are animals property to be owned and used, or sentient beings deserving of rights?
Through the heart and photographic lens of animal rights photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur, The Ghosts In Our Machine illuminates the lives of animals within the machine of our modern world. Through undercover investigations and joyful rescue missions around the world, each photograph and story is a window into global animal industries: Food, Fashion, Entertainment and Research. The Ghosts In Our Machine charts McArthur’s efforts to bring wider attention to a topic that most of humankind strives hard to avoid.
A superb example of committed filmmaking.
NOW Magazine
Liz Marshall’s powerful feature documentary The Ghosts in Our Machine builds a new case for animal rights.
The Guardian/The Observer
A film whose sense of urgency and purpose is utterly engrossing.
Village Voice
Narrative threads are compelling in writer-director Liz Marshall’s finely wrought new documentary.
Los Angeles Times
A documentary that refuses to preach, instead opting for a beautifully constructed homage to the rest of our kingdom.
ART THREAT
After watching the film, there is no way you will look or think about animals the same way again.
Women in Hollywood
Written & Directed by Liz Marshall
Produced by Nina Beveridge, Liz Marshall
Edited by Roland Schlimme, Roderick Deogrades
Cinematography by John Price, Iris Ng, Nick de Pencier, Liz Marshall
Music Score by Bob Wiseman
Supervising Sound Editor Garrett Kerr
Supervising Re-Recording Mixer Daniel Pellerin
Location Sound Recordist Jason Milligan
Interactive Directors The Goggles
Interactive Producer Sean Embury
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
Making The Ghosts In Our Machine profoundly tweaked my moral compass in new ways…It’s been a journey of discovery into what is a complex social dilemma. In essence, humans have cleverly categorized non-human animals into three parts: domesticated pets, wildlife, and the ones we don’t like to think about: the ghosts in our machine. Why do we value wildlife and our companion animals but not the billions of animals bred and used annually by global industries, for our consumer goods? It is this core question that prompted me to delve deeply.
PRODUCED IN ASSOCIATION WITH
Canada’s documentary channel
PRODUCED WITH
the participation of the Canada Media Fund, the Shaw Media Hot Docs Fund, and Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund
DISTRIBUTION
Films Transit; Indiecan Entertainment; Syndicado; LizMars Productions; BullFrog Films; McNabb and Connolly; Virgil Films; Ghosts Media