A Light in the Slaughterhouse Documentary - we need your help to complete this important film.
Hello Beautiful People,
Good Morning.
I was wondering if it would be possible to reach out to your amazing readership to help us with a very important and critical cause... saving the lives of millions of children around the world.
Please read on for the full story.
I have been working on a feature documentary, A Light in the Slaughterhouse, for over 15 years now. We have around 60 hours of footage and have just started the editing process. We are reaching out to see if you would be interested in making a donation towards the completion of the film. All donations in Australia go through the Australian Documentary Foundation and are 100% tax deductible.
A Light in the Slaughterhouse | Documentary Australia
Anyway, I have put all the details below. If you are able to help in any way, that would be fantastic.
50 years ago, an unconventional young priest, Father Joe Maier, an Irish American Catholic priest, chose the poorest part of Thailand to set up a preschool and began a lifelong love affair with the people in the slums of Bangkok. A volatile and complex character, Irish American Catholic priest Father Joe Maier has over the years provided education for over 90,000 slum children and has built or rebuilt over 10,000 slum homes. Filmed over 15 years. Father Joe provides unprecedented access and an intimate look into the hidden world of the slums and the fight to save their homes and livelihood despite the corruption, drugs, violence, child sex trafficking, AIDS, HIV and the external impact of climate change that causes devastating floods. All the while fighting the big corporates who want to displace the strong knit community who keep each other alive.
He is much revered not only to those who live in the slums, but by such humanitarian luminaries as Reverend Desmond Tutu and Mother Teresa. Even the New York Times has featured his extraordinary life work. He has stared evil in the face and put his life in danger many times by committing his life to protecting, educating, and empowering the forgotten children of the slums. But he's running out of time. Now 84 years old, he is a modern-day King Lear, ageing and desperate to continue the fight to preserve all he has worked for over the past five decades. This is a story of a man who never gives in to the hopelessness of the slums but finds instead hope in the people of his cherished community and a testament that one man can really make a difference.
After 15 years, we have completed all filming and have over 60 hours of amazing footage which now has to be edited. We are short of funding to finish the film in post-production (editing, music score, narration, animation, and colour grade & sound mix). It is critical that we complete this film, bring a greater awareness, and shine a bright light on the way that children are being mistreated in their millions throughout the world. We are also in negotiations with an ‘A’ list actor.
Anyway, please let me know if you have any questions. Sorry about the length but it’s a long story. It’s a story that needs to be told about how we can all effect change and protect children who are being exploited throughout the world. The global sex trafficking of children is a $150 billion a year business….
Here is our latest Trailer to start you off. https://vimeo.com/925298597 Some of it may be confronting - but it has to be if we are being truthful and determined to bring greater awareness around these problems.
And a link to the New York Times …. Bangkok’s Priest to the Poor Finds His Fit Among the Poor. This article also recently appeared in the New York Times.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2415085/father-joe-still-on-a-mission
Thanks so much … anything you can do will be so much appreciated.
Warm regards,
James
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