Directed by Liz Marshall
Following animal photographer Jo-Anne McArthur over the course of a year, the film illuminates the lives of individual animals living within and rescued from the machine of our modern world.
With the exception of our companion animals and a few wild and stray species within our urban environments, we experience animals daily only as the food, clothing, animal-tested goods and entertainment we make of them. This moral dilemma is often hidden from our view.
This multi-award winning documentary gently removes our blinders by illuminating the lives of individual animals living within and rescued from the machine of our modern world. Through the heart and photographic lens of acclaimed photographer Jo-Anne McArthur, we become intimately familiar with a cast of non-human animals. The film follows Jo-Anne over the course of a year as she photographs animal stories in North America and in Europe. Each story is a window into global animal industries: Food, Fashion, Entertainment and Research. THE GHOSTS IN OUR MACHINE charts McArthur's efforts to bring wider attention to a topic that most of humankind strives hard to avoid. Are non-human animals property to be owned and used, or are they sentient beings deserving of rights?
Awards
~ Top Ten Audience Favourite Award, Hot Docs Film Festival
~ Best Nature/Environment Golden Sheaf Award, Yorkton Film Festival
~ Compassion for Animals Award to Liz Marshall & Jo-Anne McArthur, Toronto Vegetarian Association
~ Special Jury Prize - International Competition, DMZ Docs
~ Best Canadian Feature, Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival
~ Green Screen Award, 2nd place, Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival
~ Top Twenty Audience Favourite Award, IDFA
~ Top Transformational Film, Viewers Choice, 2013
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