"MODERN DAY SLAVES" first documentry to expose abuse of overseas foreign workers

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(Free-Press-Release.com) February 18, 2010 -- "Modern Day Slaves" is the first film ever made in the United States that portrays the use of human beings to sustain the economy of an extant government.
Ted Unarce is the producer of the film that exposes neglect and abuse experienced by four Filipino overseas foreign workers.

The documentary follows the lives of the four Filipino overseas workers in Saudi Arabia and Hong Kong and depicts the lives of these overseas Foreign Workers who leave their home country to find work in other parts of the world in order to support their families. The Filipino government encourages and promotes this practice.

Although barely supporting themselves financially, they are required to send a huge portion of their earnings back home by way of remittances that the government bank is benefiting from.

Many over seas workers find themselves trapped by circumstance into working outlandishly protracted hours while earning close to nil, in an existence usually spent in deplorable living environments while being grossly mistreated.

"MODERN DAY SLAVES" depict rape, severe physical and psychological torture, and even a beheading. Overseas Foreign Workers thus have otherwise come to be known as Modern Day Slaves.

Ted Unarce research on many hundreds of these abused workers was not without its challenges, risks, dangers and frustrations. Victims were threatened if they spoke to the crew and additionally the camera crew often appeared to be followed while gathering footage in the Philippines, although it was never known exactly by whom; it was discovered that someone had broken into the hotel where the production crew was staying.

Modern Day Slaves is premiering in the NY International Film Festival in LA on Saturday Feb 27 2010 in The Culver Plaza Theaters at 9919 Washington Blv, Culver City.

The film has won ten Festival awards to date and will hopefully spark a wakeup call among American citizens and leaders of the Free World to take the actions necessary for protecting human rights globally.

Unarce is president and executive producer of GTC Films, a San Francisco, California-based production company that specializes in documentaries that expose the effects of economic insecurity and globalization on the lives of people in both developing and developed countries.

For more information, visit ModernDaySlavesMovie.com (http://www.moderndayslavesmovie.com) and GTCFilms.com (http://www.gtcfilms.com).

For more info:
19231 Victory blv #265
Reseda, ca 91335
contact Donna Spangler at 310 722-0622

More information can be found online at http://www.moderndayslavesmovie.com/index.htm

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