Name of Film: Human Trafficking
Type: Drama, 2-part mini-series
Countries Included: Global - Europe, U.S., Philippines
Director/Writer: Christian Duguay
Date of Film: 2005
Length: Feature length
Contact: www.lifetimetv.com
Excellent educational website:
www.lifetimetv.com/images/movies/flash/humantrafficking/guide.pdf
Info on Film: A two part mini-series starring Mira Sorvino and Donald Sutherland. Details the trafficking for sexual purposes of young women from Europe to the United States. Human Trafficking is probably the most watched media production on human trafficking. A gripping presentation that does much to educate the public on the realities of human/sex trafficking.
Name of Film: Sex Slaves , Presented by PBS FrontLine
Type: Documentary
Countries Included: Russia, Turkey (Produced & Aired in the U.S.)
Director/Writer: Ric Esther Bienstock, victimsoftrafficking@apltd.ca
Date of Film: 2006
Length: 40 minutes
Contact: Home videos/DVD's not available, school/educational videos/dvd's available at 1-877-PBS-SHOP. Transcripts can be downloaded from PBS site. Excellent information provided at PBS site.
URL: www.pbs.org/frontline/slaves
Info on Film: FRONTLINE presents a unique hidden-camera look at this world of sexual slavery, talking with traffickers and their victims, and exposing the government indifference that allows the abuses to continue virtually unchecked. Sex Slaves also follows the remarkable journey of one man, determined to find his trafficked wife, who carried her photograph in his pocket and posed as a trafficker himself to buy back her freedom.
Name
of film: Turning a Corner
Type: Documentary
Countries included: United States - Chicago, IL
Director: Salome Chasnoff
Producer: Beyondmedia Education
Date of film: 2006
Length: 60 minutes
Contact: Chicago Coalition for the Homeless 312-435-4548
Prostitution Alternatives Round Table (PART)
URL: www.beyondmedia.org
Info on Film: Turning A Corner tells the stories of people involved in the sex-trade in Chicago and their efforts to raise public awareness and promote needed reforms. The film includes over a dozen members of the Prostitution Alternatives Round Table (PART) who tell their stories of survival and triumph over homelessness, violence and discrimination, and gives rare insights into Chicago’s sex-trade industry.
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