The Price of Free
Hidden inside overcrowded factories around the world, The Price of Free (formerly titled Kailash) tells the story of countless children who are forced into slave labor due to rising global demands for cheap goods. With the help of a covert network of informants, Nobel Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi and his dedicated team carry out daring raids to rescue and rehabilitate imprisoned children. Using hidden cameras and playing the role of buyers at the factory to gain access, we watch Kailash take on one of his most challenging missions to date: finding Sonu, a young boy trafficked to Delhi for work who has been missing for eight months. Now his father dreams of Sonu coming home.
Kailash’s warmth and passion have gained international support for his philosophy that each child should be allowed to embrace their childhood. He gives them support, clothes, medical care and an education. Equal parts harrowing and motivating, first-time filmmaker Derek Doneen pulls us into Kailash’s gripping pursuits and relentless energy to create the change he wants to see.
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- Director
- Derek Doneen
- Producers
- Davis Guggenheim, Sarah Anthony
- Executive Producers
- Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann, Elise Pearlstein, Laurene Powell Jobs, Shannon Dill, Jonathan Silberberg
- Director of Photography
- Lars Skree
- Editors
- Brian Lazarte, Joshua Altman
- Original Music
- Saunder Jurriaans, Danny Bensi
- Animation
- Jason Carpenter
- Co-producer
- Purnima Raghunath
- Story by
- Davis Guggenheim, Derek Doneen
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