Name
of film: Anonymously Yours
Type: Documentary
Countries included: Burma
Subject: Sex Trafficking
Director: Gayle Ferraro (Founder &
Producer)
Date of film: 2002, Format: VHS (NTSC and
PAL), Beta, 35mm (pending)
Length: 90 minutes
Contact Information: Gayle Ferraro gayle@aerial-productions.com,
Tel 617.492.4222 Fax 617.492.2113 [Aerial
Productions], http://www.aerial-productions.com
Colleen Barry - Director of Distribution colleen@aerial-productions.com General Information: info@aerial-productions.com
Tel 617.492.4222
URL: http://www.aerial-productions.com
Info on Film: Deep in the
uncharted world of sex trafficking in Burma , four
women's strikingly different stories are pieced
together to create the broader picture which
engulfs them and as many as forty million other
women in the fastest growing industry on earth.
From backrooms in teashops and restaurants to five
star western hotels, it all revolves around the
routine merchandising of women for the sexual
escape and pleasure of men from all cultures. We
witness the rampant, widespread corruption and
staggering poverty, both of which are the status
quo in much of the world.
http://www.nefilm.com/news/archives/02october/ferraro.htm
Name
of film: Bagkok Girl (Formerly screened as "Falang: Behind Bangkok's Smile" on CBC Roughcuts (Canada) season on November, 2005)
Type: Documentary
Countries included: Thailand
Director: Jordan Clark
Date of film: 2005
Length: 42 minutes
Contact Information: mailbox@movingimages.ca
Availability: Available in VHS & DVD. It is available for license (outside of Canada - inside Canada after November 16, 2006) and purchase (DVD or VHS) through Moving Images
URL: www.highbanks.ca/projects.htm
Info on Film: Jordan Clark's tragic documentary provides a glimpse into Thailand's notorious and booming sex tourism industry through the experiences of a 19-year-old bar girl named Pla. Working in the bars from the age of thirteen, Pla has managed to avoid selling her body—a remarkable revelation given her surroundings—but her refusal to take part in this all-too-common profession for young Thai women cannot last. The introduction of falangs, or foreigners, to Thailand has forever changed the city, the economy, the Thai people's lives and desires. A daring and unabashed look at a popular Western predilection through the eyes of one girl, this film challenges the accepted worldwide practice of sex tourism. This film is recommended for Asian Studies, Women’s Studies, and Human Rights accompaniment.
Name
of film: Sacrifice
Type: Documentary
Countries included: Burma and Thailand
Subject: Child Prostitution
Director: Ellen Bruno
Date of film: 1998
Length: 50 minutes
Contact Information: Ellen Bruno at EBruno@compuserve.com
URL: http://www.brunofilms.com
Info on Film: Each year
thousands of girls are recruited from rural
Burmese villages to work in brothels in Thailand
where they are held for years in debt bondage. The
trafficking of Burmese girls is a direct result of
political repression in Burma. Human rights
abuses, war, and ethnic discrimination have
displaced thousands of families leaving them with
no means of livelihood. This film, through
interviews with the girls, examines the social,
cultural, and economic forces at work in the
trafficking of these Burmese girls.
Name
of Film: Sisters and Daughters Betrayed
Countries included: Thailand, Nepal,
Phillipines
Subject: Slavery and Prostitution
Director: Chela Blitt, Producer
Date of film: 1995
Length: 28 min.
Contact information: orders@globalfundforwomen.org
URL: www.globalfundforwomen.org
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Cost: $25 for individual use, discounts for
students and activists
Info on Film: Sex trafficking is a global -
and especially Asian - crisis of growing
dimensions. Millions of women and young girls have
been illegally transported from rural to urban
areas and across national borders for the purpose
of prostitution. This compelling video explores
the social and economic forces that drive this
lucrative underground trade, and the devastating
impact it has on women's lives.
Name
of film: Trading Women
Type: Documentary
Countries included: Burma, Thailand, et al
Subject: Trafficking of women and the drug
trade
Director: David Feingold
Date of film: 2003
Length: 60 minutes
Contact Information: ophidianfilms@hotmail.com
URL: http://www.der.org/films/trading-women.html
Info on Film: TRADING WOMEN is
a documentary that investigates the trade in
minority girls and women from Burma, Laos and
China into the Thai sex industry. The culmination
of 5 years of field research, the film shatters
Western myths about the sex trade: "Its part
of their culture to sell their daughters;"
"The problem is the parents;" "It's
because of Western sex tours;" "They
sell girls for TVs." The film shows that, in
reality, trafficked hill tribe girls do not land
in the bar streets of Bangkok that cater to
Westerners -- known to tourists, journalists and
film-goers alike. They move into a world, far more
hidden, and, as one character in the film says,
"far more sinister" And far more likely
to infect them with HIV/AIDS. The film takes us
into that world, meeting girls, brothel owners,
and traffickers, as well as those seeking to
combat the trade. It also shows the casual,
everyday nature of police corruption. It is the
first film to show the relationship of the trade
in drugs to the trade in women. Filmed in China,
Burma, Laos, Thailand, New York, and Washington,
D.C., this is the only film to follow the trade in
women in all its complexity, and to explore the
international response to the issue. Produced by
Ophidian Films, Ltd.
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