ghost fleet vr
producer
At 14, Tun Lin was kidnapped from Thailand and sold into slavery. He spent the next 14 years on a ship, forced to fish without pay. With the help of a humanitarian agency, Tun Lin escaped and returned home — but many are not so lucky.
Ghost Fleet VR offers epic storytelling and takes us to the ships, ports, and seas where the slave trade takes place, exposing these injustices and their relationship to the lucrative fishing industry.
This project was created as both a standalone documentary and a companion piece to the feature film Ghost Fleet.
Collaboration
I collaborated on multiple components of this production including development, scripting, editing, and community engagement. Produced in partnership with Catovia
Directors
Lucas Gath
Lucas Gath is a filmmaker from Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the past 12 years, Gath has worked as a cinematographer in over 80 countries, shooting feature films, documentaries, virtual reality films, music videos, and commercials.
Shannon Service
Shannon Service is an independent reporter and filmmaker whose work has appeared in the New York Times, on BBC, and in the Guardian. She focuses on crimes at sea, but her stories cover everything from the ravages of war to the intimacies of heartbreak.