Nominated for Spirit of Raindance Award
Q&A with Director Andrew Abrahams
“Our military experience plays a big part in what we do,” says Vince of K9 Global Rescue, an American organisation dedicated to shutting down South Korea’s dog meat farms. “This is a war and the war is to stop the dog meat trade.”
It’s a trade which remains hugely divisive among South Koreans themselves. The divide is, at least in part, generational. Younger people generally consider eating dog meat to be an outdated and uncivilised custom. It’s a practice which is more in favour with older generations, who cite dog meat’s health benefits, and are wary of Western values being imposed on their culture.
An astonishingly wide range of interviewees – academics, activists, politicians, meat traders and dog farm owners – provide a 360-degree view of this complex issue. Covertly shot footage takes us inside the dog farms: unregulated, unsanitary, often playgrounds for casual cruelty. The footage is truly harrowing, but gripping, and never too disturbing to watch.
This documentary is a snapshot of a society in transition, a cross-section of a country in the midst of a significant cultural shift.
Review by Joanna Boyd
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