Working with NATO forces, this Surrey filmmaker is doing everything she can to help 5 Afghan families relocate to Canada. Setting up a base in Kamloops, she is currently working on relocating 22 Afghans, most of which are women and children to Canada.
Winning 5 international film festival awards, Alison MacLean pays homage to the young Afghan women who joined the police and the military, in her documentary Burkas2Bullets.
She tells us about her work and experience during her time in Afghanistan.
She is working on her latest documentary project, Trafficking in the Age of COVID-19: Sex, Drugs and Slavery.
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