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Karachi Stories: Graveyard For Giants

Name: Karachi Stories: Graveyard For Giants
Director: Madeeha Syed
Genre: Human Rights, Asian
Released: 2015
Duration: 4 minutes

Workers in the Graveyard For Giants

Synopsis

Workers of the size of ants next to the ships they are dismantling risk their life to scrap a living.

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Details

Year: 2015
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 4 minutes
Director: Madeeha Syed
Producer: Anne Milne, Noe Mendelle
Editor: Faizan Suleman
Director of Photography: Syed Hasan Haider
Sound: Tazeen Bari

Genre

Human Rights Asian

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Scottish Documentary Institute

Contact: Agata Jagodzinska
E: agata@scotdoc.com
T: +44 0131 651 5761

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