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Freight- 1st Worldwide Screening
The slave trade today is worth 9.5bn$ world wide. A container full of Eastern European immigrants is opened. Those they trusted to provide safe passage suddenly are ripping the women away from them. After a violent struggle, they are taken away. They were not expecting this treatment in England, they were hoping for freedom. FRYDERYCK (Zsolt Nagy of Kontrol), one of the male immigrants, instantly begins to plan his escape to reclaim his wife EWA (Natalie Anderson of The Royal) and daughter DOLORETA. The men are delivered to their new home. A farm which will act as their prison. CHRISTI (Danny Midwinter of Anaconda 4), the leader of the vicious criminal gang, informs them that they were chosen for passage due to their Special Forces background. To secure their freedom they must win six illegal cage fights. If they try to escape, their wives and children will be killed. The women are taken to a sex club, where Frederyck's wife and daughter, Ewa and Doloreta, are to be sold. Backstage at a rock concert, ZAF (Stephen Uppal of Hollyoaks) a British Asian, phones his boss GABE (Billy Murray of Rise Of The Foot Soldier and Call Of Duty) to tell him that one of Gabe's luxury porter-loos has been stolen. He sees another is being taken, and quickly jumps inside. He uses his phone's GPS to give Gabe directions to track down the thief. JULIE (Laura Aikman of Blood Monkey, Surviving Picasso and Scarlet Tunic), Gabe's daughter, is due to marry Zaf in three days and is unhappy he has been put in danger. Gabe, who also runs a boxing gym with his long time friend MITCH (Craig Fairbrass of Cliff Hanger, Call Of Duty and Rise Of The Foot Soldier), gets together a group of lads to retrieve Zaf and the toilet. When they arrive at the Farm, Gabe and his men are shocked to be attacked with guns and knives. Fryderyck, and his fellow Moldavians LUDWICK and SORIN look on, hoping they may be rescued. One of Cristia's men is accidentally killed and, unaware of the detained men, Gabe's team make their escape with Zaf and the toilet - but not before Cristi warns Gabe that he will kill his family. SONNY (Matt Kennard of Doctors) an estranged son of Gabe, is a young boxing champion who works as a builder. After being laid off due to cheap immigrant labour, he finds himself with no option but to partake in illegal fights in order to make a living. Cristi runs the fights. Gabe and his eldest son STEVIE (Sam Kennard of Born Of Hope) arrive at their boxing club in time to see it decimated by an explosion. As they run through the burning building they are distraught to find their colleagues dead and Julie missing. Gabe and his men return to the farm; it is booby-trapped. The gatehouse explodes, killing one of Gabe's men. At the sex club the women are reluctantly working under the watchful eye of CARLA (Polish world fitness Champion), their tyrant supervisor, who employs violence and drugs to keep them in their place. That night Fryderyck and Sonny fight in a cage watched by a large crowd. Fryderyck asks Sonny to pretend, but Sonny, furious at the loss of his job, wants to win. The fight continues until Sonny makes a mistake and dies - his younger brother KARL (Luke Aikman of Fever Pitch and Devil's Gate) is devastated, and instantly calls his family. Gabe instantly mounts the warpath. He is now not only in search of his daughter, but also his Son's killers. Gabe and his team track down a group of 4 Eastern Europeans and take them hostage. Before they are able to extract the information they need, Karl, emotional and desperate, unloads a gun into the heads of the hostages. A dead man's phone rings. Gabe answers to hear Cristiâ's voice. A series of confrontations, standoffs and chases ensue as Gabe searches for his daughter alive. When he tracks Cristi down, he also finds Fryderyck, his son's killer. Keen to understand why his son was killed, Gabe confronts Fryderyck. The pair have common ground in their pasts. Neither man wanted what had happened. An unexpected friendship forms, and they vow together to find their women alive and bring down the gang who have forced their hand. Fast moving action film with a deep sense of social justice on many layers, showing a huge international problem; Human Trafficking, which is now an industry worth over $9.5b.
Producer: stuart st paul
Director: stuart st paul
Screenwriter: stuart st paul
Editor: stuart st paul
Cinematographer:
Music: Mark Blackledge
Cast: Billy Murray (Lead Actor), Craig Fairbrass (Lead Actor), Danny Midwinter (Lead Actor), Sam Kennard (Lead Actor), Luke Aikman (Lead Actor), Zsolt Nagy (Lead Actor), Laura Aikman (Lead Actor), Jean Heard (Lead Actor), Matt Kennard (Lead Actor), Natalie Anderson (Lead Actor), Andrew Tiernan (Lead Actor), Stephen Uppal (Lead Actor), Joe Egan (Lead Actor),
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