The Deadline
Travelling aboard a Greenpeace ship along the West Coast of Africa The Deadline unravels a multi-billion dollar pirate fishing scam. Hidden far out at sea and without surveillance, fish are caught by unhygienic unlicensed rusting trawlers using slave labor. Set within a high seas drama this catch is then smuggled back to port in official European Union boxes through the Canary Islands for Westerner's dinner plates with no one the wiser it has been stolen from the poorest people on the planet.
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Phil Stebbing Director
First release September 1, 2008 · Produced in United Kingdom
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Wishbone Productions
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United Kingdom
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United Kingdom · September 1, 2008
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
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