Muro Ami Essay

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------------------------------------------------- Muro Ami From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (July 2007) | Muro Ami (Reef Hunters) | GMA Films' Muro Ami (Reef Hunters) | Directed by | Marilou Diaz-Abaya | Screenplay by | Ricardo Lee and Jun Lana | Story by | Marilou Diaz-Abaya | Starring | Cesar Montano as Fredo, Pen Medina as Dado, Amy Austria as Susan, Jhong Hilario as Botong, Rebecca Lusterio as Kalbo/Amy | Cinematography | Rody Lacap | Editing by | Jesus Navarro | Distributed by | GMA Films | Release date(s) | December 25, 1999 | Running time | 120 minutes | Language | Tagalog | Muro Ami (Reef-Hunters) is a Filipino film that depicts one of the worst forms of child labor in the illegal fishing system. Fredo is the ruthless captain of 150 Muro Ami divers. The illegal fishing is done by pounding and crushing corals underwater to scare the fishes and drive them towards the nets. With a high quota to meet, Fredo forces the divers, who consist mostly of children, to accomplish at least eight dives a day to meet their goal before the millennium. Tired and harassed after the burdensome task being given to them, the children have to make do in subhuman conditions in the Muro Ami boat, The Aurora. They sleep in rat-infested bunks and are fed only twice a day. Life above the water in the boat is much worse than the suffering the children encounter beneath the sea. For every dive, a child's life is perilously in danger. On January 22, 2008, filmmaker Nick Deocampo, Director of the Movie Workers Welfare Foundation (Mowelfund) announced the holding of a Ricardo Lee Film Festival from February 4 to 10, 2008 - the World Arts Festival under Mayor Tito
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