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“Organ Trade” doc wins Edward R. Murrow Award
Ric Esther Bienstock’s Tales from the Organ Trade and Mark Levinson’s Particle Fever are among the documentaries nominated for the Grierson Trust’s 2014 British Documentary Awards...
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Tales From the Organ Trade to vie for Grierson Trust award
Ric Esther Bienstock’s Tales From the Organ Trade has been short-listed for The Grierson Trust’s 2014 British Documentary Awards...
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Bienstock film is no ordinary documentary
How do you find one of the world’s most wanted men for an interview...
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Ric Esther Bienstock doc wins Edward R. Murrow Award
Tales From the Organ Trade, writer/director Ric Esther Bienstock’s documentary about the shadowy world of black market organ trafficking, has earned a prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award...
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“Organ Trade” doc wins Edward R. Murrow Award
Tales from the Organ Trade, writer-director Ric Esther Bienstock’s documentary about the world of black market organ trafficking, has won a prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award...
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HBO's Canadian Organ Traffickers Doc Wins Edward R. Murrow Award
Tales From the Organ Trade, an HBO documentary by writer-director Ric Esther Bienstock, has won an Edward R. Murrow Award...
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DOCUMENTARY OF THE WEEK: 'Tales From The Organ Trade'
Every sixty minutes, a human organ is sold on the black market. It's a huge industry, trading in body parts from corneas, to eggs, to slices of liver. But, by far, the biggest demand on the menu is for... the kidney...
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The "Ambiguous World" of the Organ Black Market
On Monday 13 January, the Frontline Club hosted a screening of Tales from the Organ Trade followed by a Q&A session with director Ric Esther Bienstock...
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StLIFF 2013: Tales from the Organ Trade
Director Ric Esther Bienstock’s disquieting new documentary feature, Tales from the Organ Trade, is an uncommonly balanced and even-handed film, but this isn’t to say that it is bias-free...
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Paying for Body Parts: A Dilemma Obamacare Doesn't Have to Confront -- Yet
Should a person be allowed to sell his or her body parts...
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Exploring the Gray Area in Organ Trafficking
A new documentary, “Tales from the Organ Trade,” delves into questions about kidney trafficking...
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HBO Fall Documentary: TALES FROM THE ORGAN TRADE
I have been waiting for this documentary to come along...
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'Tales from the Organ Trade' is a Terrifying Story of the Vast Disparities in Desperation
Does Dr. Frankenstein Answer His Emails...
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On Cable: TALES FROM THE ORGAN TRADE
Ric Esther Bienstock’s investigation into the black market for human organs made its debut this Spring at Documentary Edge...
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How Much Is Your Life Worth?
How much is your life worth? If you suffer a heart attack, get bypass surgery, and stay in the hospital for several weeks, you're looking at about $100,000...
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Ethical dilemmas surround those willing to sell, buy kidneys on black market
There's no denying that there is a shortage of organ donations in the United States...
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What Do I Have to Do, Sell a Kidney?
What do you get when you cross major advances in medical technology, specifically in organ transplantation, with worldwide poverty and wealth disparity...
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Tales from the Organ Trade
On the list of grisly subjects, organ trade is near the top...
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CIFF 2013: Tales from the Organ Trade
The title of this unsettling Canadian documentary tells you exactly what you’ll get from it...
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Veshkat - Çka Nëse u Tregohet Rrëfim Tjetër
Kur filloi të punojë në filmin e saj për trafikimin e organeve u nis me idenë se të blesh një pjesë trupi nga dikush i varfër ishte eksploatuese dhe e neveritshme. Mirëpo, sot, ajo është e bindur se e vërteta është një rrëfim më i gjerë...
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A Global Trade in Hope and Desperation
The director of a new film that explores international organ-trafficking says that prosecutions like the recent kidney-trading trial in Kosovo will not stop the black market in body parts...
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What’s hot at Hot Docs
The fact that David Cronenberg narrates this penetrating inquiry into the black market traffic in human body parts may seem like a cruel joke, but this is a serious, superb and essential documentary that cuts through the sensationalism and hysteria surrounding its subject...
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Documentary maker takes on the ethical morass of the organ trade
A Canadian documentary maker is in New Zealand to publicise the horrors of a flourishing trade in body parts...
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Tales from the Organ Trade investigates the black market of organ trafficking
A documentary filmmaker investigates the organ trade and questions her beliefs...
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‘Tales From the Organ Trade’ performs a surgical critique of global inequality
The prospect of going under the surgeon’s knife terrifies most human beings...
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Hot Docs 2013: Tales From the Organ Trade
In Tales From the Organ Trade, Ric Bienstock reinforces her hardearned reputation for slipping a camera into impossible places and emerging with gut-wrenching stories of the human condition...
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Hot Docs 2013 Review: TALES FROM THE ORGAN TRADE Is Wonderfully Nuanced
Far too often "issue" films play out as mere polemics, dogmatically reemphasizing a given point of view to a receptive audience...
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Jesse Kline on selling organs: Don’t let high-minded ideals get in the way of saving lives
TORONTO — Is it immoral to buy and sell human organs...
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Tales from the Organ Trade: Inside an illegal transplant operation
Leave your preconceptions about human organ trafficking at the door...
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Hot Docs Review: 'Tales from the Organ Trade'
What constitutes a crime? Stealing? Hurting someone? Killing another person? Saving another human...
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HOT DOCS 2013: MOST ANTICIPATED FILMS
Hot Docs 2013 is fast approaching, and this looks to be one of the best years yet for great documentaries...
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Hot Docs 2013
Our critics weigh in on the buzziest, sexiest films screening at this year’s edition of the annual real-to-reel festival...
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Reel life returns with festival
My prediction is that summer will finally throw up its hands in surrender come Wednesday...
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Tales from the Organ Trade Hot Docs 2013 Review
With a name like Tales from the Organ Trade and its interesting casting selection of body horror maestro David Cronenberg as its narrator, I’m not sure one could blame me for expecting gruesome, unsanitary, back alley surgeons assisted by frightfully personalized scalpel sets straight out of Dead Ringers‘ repertoire...
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Hot Docs 2013: Award Winners and More Esoteric Recommendations
Well, the festival is over and the docs are flying south (and west, and east – and maybe even north) for the summer – hopefully to a cinema near you...
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Tales from the Organ Trade - Shedding light on the underground organ trade
How do you regulate black-market organ trafficking around the world when the demand in developed countries far exceeds the supply from legal donors...
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HOT DOCS 2013: Tales From The Organ Trade
A challenge to the viewer and thought-provoking, Tales From The Organ Trade illuminates the side beyond the legal fence and it tags at ethical and human expectations in organ trafficking...
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Tales From The Organ Trade (2013) Hot Docs 2013
Food for thought and then some...
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Tales from the Organ Trade
Tales from the Organ Trade is a fascinating film which takes a chilling look at the characters in the international black market in organs...
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Hot Docs 2013: ‘Tales From the Organ Trade’ reveals body parts black market
According to the World Health Organization, every hour a human organ is sold on the black market...
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Hot Docs Kicks Into High Gear
Now with last night’s opening night shindig out of the way, it’s time for Hot Docs 2013 to kick into high gear...
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Review: ‘Tales from the Organ Trade’ gets inside the controversy
‘Tales from the Organ Trade’ is a riveting investigative documentary that chronicles the desperately poor and the desperately ill in a complex ethical dilemma...
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This Week In Trailers: Bending Steel, Tales From The Organ Trade, Citizen Hearst, The Happy House, The English Teacher
Everyone knows the default position on human organ trafficking...
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Doco reveals horrors of body parts trade
Everyone knows the default position on human organ trafficking...
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Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: Ric Esther Bienstock
Canadian filmmaker Ric Esther Bienstock is best known for her investigative documentaries, notably the Emmy Award-winning Sex Slaves...
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Tales from the Organ Trade
It's illegal for people who need a kidney to pay someone to make the potentially life-saving donation...
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Tales from the Organ Trade: Ric Esther Bienstock
If you have believed the issue of selling kidneys is Black and White, come with us into the Grey Zone...
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Hot Docs 2013: My Thoughts on Tales from the Organ Trade
There are people all over the world, who are desperate in need of a new organ to survive...
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Movie Review - Tales from the Organ Trade
From the slums of the Philippines to a Toronto urban dwelling, the trafficking of human organs is a worldwide issue...
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Hot Docs 2013: Tales from the Organ Trade
I never knew what an arm looked like after its been on dialysis...
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Hot Docs 2013: ‘Tales from the Organ Trade’ Review
Ric Esther Bienstock’s Tales from the Organ Trade delves deeply into the world of illegal organ trafficking across the globe...
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10 Hot Docs Films You Don’t Want to Miss
Celebrating its 20th year, the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival is generating quite the buzz...
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Hot Docs Review: Tales from the Organ Trade [Ric Esther Bienstock, 2013]
There is a “little known” problem with money: it discourages a holistic valuation from a humane perspective...
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Hot Docs 2013 Interview: TALES FROM THE ORGAN TRADE Director Ric Esther Bienstock
Ric Esther Bienstock's documentary about human organ trafficking is both beautifully made and refreshingly sophisticated...
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The Anatomy of the Organ Trade
Ric Esther Bienstock on what it was like to enter the morally ambiguous world of organ trafficking...
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Tales from the organ trade
Imagine that you live in poverty. A chance arises for you to earn a year's salary in one day...
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‘Face to Face’ with David Cronenberg, auteur turned author, and Stompin’ Tom fan
Last night I mixed with a host of iconic celebrities at Toronto’s Gladstone Hotel...
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Prosecutor awaits verdict in Kosovo organ trafficking trial
Jonathan Ratel spent three years piecing together his case; a verdict in the trial is expected as early as next week...
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[Hot Docs Review] Tales from the Organ Trade
With a name like Tales from the Organ Trade and its interesting casting selection of body horror maestro David Cronenberg as its narrator, I’m not sure one could blame me for expecting gruesome, unsanitary, back alley surgeons assisted by frightfully personalized scalpel sets straight out of Dead Ringers‘ repertoire...
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