Human Harvest (Chinese: 活摘) is a 2014 documentary film, directed by Vancouver filmmaker Leon Lee, which follows the investigative work by Canadian Nobel Peace Prize nominees David Matas and David Kilgour on whether and how state-run hospitals in China harvested and sold organs by killing tens of thousands of prisoners of conscience, mainly Falun Gong practitioners.
[3] According to Peabody Awards judges:[2][4][5] With powerful testimonials about the intricacies of the trade and the human cost, including interviews with Chinese doctors who confide they’ve been coerced into removing organs from live political prisoners, this is a harrowing exposé of a fiendish system of forced organ donor transplants.Peabody Awards winners must receive unanimous support from the 17 members of the Peabody Board of Jurors.
[3] On April 7, 2015, Dateline of SBS Australia broadcast the film and urged the Australian Government to do something to help stop illegal organ trade in China.
[6][7][8] The Sydney Morning Herald reported that the investigators, including David Matas and his colleagues, are "pushing for the perpetrators to stand before the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity".
[9][10][11] In 2015, the Chinese Communist Party said it would stop harvesting the organs of executed prisoners, an announcement about which the filmmaker Lee is skeptical.