Ghosts

How much cooperation did you get from the supermarket featured in the film?
None… but we did lots of undercover research beforehand so we had proof that what we filmed was true. Supermarkets tend to pretend they don’t know what’s going on and are happy to just look the other way. Nothing is really going to change there. It’s a bit like the government – they haven’t given the victim’s families any financial support. It’s a very hypocritical attitude, our economy would collapse overnight without immigrants. Their labour enables us to have a much higher standard of living but the government won’t recognise the debt we have in this mutual relationship.

You see very few foreign language films on TV these days, was it harder to sell because it’s not in English?
We had more than a few discussions about the language, but English is a very hard language to learn for the Chinese, and it just wouldn’t have rung true. The dialogue wasn’t heavily scripted, we’d give them the gist of it but the actual language would be up to them. It works because it doesn’t sound like an English person has written the dialogue.