This list is put together to give you ideas about movies or films you may want to watch or show at a film screening.

Note: These films or movies may contain graphic language, sexual content, and violence. While they expose the truth about modern-day slavery, they may not be appropriate for all audiences.

New Releases

Very Young Girls

Prostitution is not only the oldest profession but also the easiest story gimmick, giving rise to tales of hookers with hearts of gold and roguish but lovable pimps. Documentaries tend toward their own stereotypes, such as the empowered sex worker or the strung–out crack whore. Rarely does a film defy expectation on this topic as much as Very Young Girls, whose title reflects the all-too-real fact that in the United States the average age of entry into prostitution is just thirteen.

The film takes us into the work of a former sexually exploited youth–turned–activist named Rachel Lloyd, who started the New York City organization GEMS (Girls Educational and Mentoring Services) to help victimized young women escape their pimps and find another way of life. We meet teenaged girls at different stages of this transition. Some have been so psychologically manipulated by their pimps that they feel compelled to return the same way junkies crave another fix. Others have successfully broken with their pasts. As we come to know these girls better, they emerge as well–rounded individuals full of unexpected laughter and insight.

Website: http://www.gems-girls.org/girlsarenotforsale.html

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The Dark Side of Chocolate

The Dark Side of Chocolate examines the child labor and child trafficking which fuels parts of the West African chocolate trade. Danish journalist Miki Mistrati travels to Mali to learn about the intersection between our favorite sweet-stuff and child slave labor.

Website: http://www.thedarksideofchocolate.org/

At The End of Slavery

This documentary argues that effective enforcement of well-written anti-trafficking laws will end modern slavery.It uses footage from Cambodia, India, the U.S. and the Philippines to tell stories of raids and survivor support systems that worked, and lessened slavery in those areas.

Website: http://www.attheendofslavery.com/

The Sold Project

Designed to speak to the hip and socially conscious 20 and 30-something generation, this film gains its strength by blending elements of art, culture, truth and hope. The SOLD Project believes in the power film has to deliver a message and trusts that the truth found in this film will resonate within people’s hearts and minds.

Website: http://thesoldproject.com/film/synopsis.php

Sold

"Our hope is that SOLD: Fighting the New Global Slave Trade will do more than just expose the darkness of slavery today. There are already so many films that document what is wrong with the world, exposing us to image after tragic image, adding to our collective compassion fatigue." - The SOLD team

Website: http://www.jodyhassettsanchez.com/film.html

Documentary Films:

American Pimp
Note: This documentary glamorizes pimping in the United States. While viewing, remember that many pimps are sex traffickers under Federal law, using force, fraud, and coercion to profit from the commercial sexual exploitation of women and children.

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Black Gold
Black Gold examines the exploitation of coffee farmers in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. The movie follows Tadesse Meskela on a mission to save his 74,000 struggling coffee farmers from bankruptcy. As his farmers strive to harvest some of the highest quality coffee beans on the international market, Tadesse travels the world in an attempt to find buyers willing to pay a fair price. Against the backdrop of Tadesse's journey, the enormous power of the multinational players that dominate the world's coffee trade becomes apparent.

Website: http://www.blackgoldmovie.com/

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The Day My God Died
In Bombay alone, 90 new cases of HIV infection are reported every hour, and the victims are getting younger: two decades ago, most women in India's brothels were in their twenties or thirties. Today, the average age is 14. Narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins, The Day My God Died puts a human face on these abstract numbers as it recounts the stories of several Nepalese girls who were forced into the international child sex trade.

Website: http://www.thedaymygoddied.com/
Contact: Andrew Levine Productions
Phone: 435-655-8319
Fax: 435-655-8320

So Great A Violence: Prostitution, Trafficking and The Global Sex Industry
This film, produced by the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, goes beyond the myths about prostitution as a glamorous job, a new form of work and a woman?s choice to demonstrate the harm of prostitution and sex trafficking.

Website: www.catwinternational.org
Contact: Coalition Against Trafficking in Women(CATW)
Address: CATW P.O. Box 9338 N. Amherst, MA 01059 USA Fax: 413-367-9262

China Dolls
This movie is the story of a poor single mother who takes a job in Singapore, thinking she has been hired as a chambermaid. Instead, she finds herself in a stable of prostitutes.

Website: www.amazon.com  http://www.amazon.com/China-Dolls-film-Don-Barnhart/dp/B000VSP44I/ref=pd_bbs_3?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1239115973&sr=8-3

The Shanghai Hotel
Twenty two year-old Yin Yin has paid her own way to the United States under the impression that she will be trained for a computer job. After a harrowing journey on a crowded and disease infested cargo ship she arrives to the Shanghai Hotel, a run down brothel in New York City. There Yin Yin is threaten and forced to slave labor and sexual exploitation.

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Website: http://www.shanghaihotelthemovie.com/

Child Camel Jockeys-Modern Day Slavery
This is the Emmy and duPont award winning documentary by the American Television channel - HBO; on the plight of thousands of children working as camel jockeys in the Middle East. This documentary focuses on the work of Ansar Burney in the UAE to save the innocent children and bring to an end this form of child slavery.

Website: http://www.ansarburney.org/videolinks/video-hbo1.html

Dying to Leave
By listening to the voices of those who pulled up their roots and risked all, Dying to Leave puts a human face to the stories of trafficking by following five individuals who journeys of trafficking traverse 16 countries from Colombia to China and Mexico to Moldova. This documentary examines the circumstances that drove these migrants from their homes, describes the difficulties involved in their epic journeys, and reveals what awaits them in their new world.

Year: 2004, Rating: PG, Runtime: 104 min, Produced in Australia & USA
Directed By: Chris Hilton and Aaron Wolf,

Website: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/shows/dying/index.html
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Four Years in Hell
Trafficking in women is big business in Nepal. Young girls are often sold by their own families, kidnapped to other countries and lose both their freedom and innocence. This is the tragic story about one such girl, Chakkali Bal who was sold and forced to work as a prostitute.

Website: http://www.filmakers.com/index.php?a=filmDetail&filmID=1092

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Freedom and Beyond
Freedom and Beyond is a documentary film takes viewers inside a raid to free children in northern India, introduces the heroes who risk everything to rescue the children, shows former slaves as they learn to play again and finally travels with activists from Bal Vikas Ashram to remote villages where children are routinely trafficked. Viewers see once powerless, hopeless villagers join forces to arrest local traffickers and do whatever it takes to create a safe place for their children.

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Girl Trafficking: Manushi for Sustainable Development
Girl Trafficking is a docu-drama that depicts the process of trafficking of young girls from the rural hills of Nepal to the brothels in India. Filmed in Sindhupalchowk and Bombay, it deals with the social ostracization of girls infected with HIV/AIDS. It is being used as a training tool by other NGOs on gender sensitization at community level.

Contact information:  PO Box 2682, Gyaneshore, Kathmandu, Nepal
Tel. Phone: 977-1-413662, Fax: 977-1-413662,
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Girls from Chaka Street
Gils from Chaka Street look at the sex industry in the Baltic countries. It shows the forces that drive young girls onto the streets, the physical and psychological risks they run, and the growing involvement of the Mafia in lucrative sex trafficking. This film is one of a four part series called "A Question of Rights"

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Tin Girls

A 55 minute documentary on the trafficking of girls for prostitution from Nepal to India. Tin Girls, one of the Valor Humano (Human Value) series of documentaries produced by Canal plus, was first inspired by the magazine feature When No Means Never Again, written by Chelo Alvarez with the help of Anjana Shakya, President  of HimRights, and published by Planeta Humano magazine, Spain.

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Bangkok Girl

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.

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Website: www.highbanks.ca/projects.htm

Highway to Hell
"Highway to Hell" is a film that deals with the trafficking of young Nepalese girls either across the border from Nepal to India or from small Nepalese villages to large Nepalese as well as Indian towns. It also depicts the ease with which Nepalese girls are brought over to Mumbai for prostitution and their plight once they are within the environs of Red Light Areas especially Kamathipura in Mumbai. NGOs or social service agencies working there are given a brief mention with more emphasis being paid to the trafficking process.

A Film by Award-winning Filmmaker
Meera Dewan with Niraja Rao
Produced by Southview Productions
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Invisible Children: Rough Cut
What started out as a film-making adventure in Africa, transformed into much more, when the three young American's discovered children being kidnapped nightly from their homes and subsequently forced to become fight as child soldiers in northern Uganda. The abducted children are then desensitized to the horror of brutal violence and killing, as they themselves are turned into vicious fighters. The film also highlights what the community refers to as "night commuters," thousands of children "commute" out of fear, from their villages to nearby towns each night in order to avoid the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) abductions.

Website: www.invisiblechildren.com

I Just Keep Quiet: The Voices of Human Trafficking
Human trafficking has surpassed drug and gun trafficking in profits. Three victims reveal the unknown truths about today's largest illicit operation, and interviews with law enforcement and social service providers, as well as policy makers shed light on this horrific practice spreading in the US.

DVD Available for $20 by calling Refugee Women's Alliance (ReWA): (206) 721-8448
http://www.rewa.org

Making of a Girl
Making of a Girl was created by Girls Education Mentoring Service (GEMS), an organization serving sexually exploited youth in New York State. Through the voices of the youth speaking about their experiences, the video explores the predatory behaviors of pimps, the glorification of pimps in mainstream culture, and the ways that sexually-exploited youth are treated and stigmatized in society.

Available at: www.youtube.com

Not For Sale: The Documentary
Not For Sale is a documentary based on David Batstone's book Not for Sale. The film tells the story of organizations working to combat human trafficking. The director uses personal interviews of people working in these organization and footage of their work to show how these individuals first learned about slavery and moved to inspiring action to emancipate girls and boys as well as women and men held in bondage.

Available at: www.notforsalecampaign.org

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Sacrifice
Sacrifice examines the social, cultural, and economic forces at work in the trafficking of Burmese girls into prostitution in Thailand. It is the story of the valuation and sale of human beings, and the efforts of teenage girls to survive a personal crisis born of economic and political repression.

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Iska's Journey
Iska’s Journey tells the harrowing story of a twelve-year-old girl who shows courage in the face of harsh poverty, only to succumb eventually to its ravages. It brutally exhibits the cruel conditions under which millions of women and children are preyed upon by the prostitution trade. In her decaying mining town in Romania, Iska (Mária Varga) scavenges for scrap metal under deplorable conditions – a practice rife in the aging grey industrialized areas of Eastern Europe. Shot with a hand-held 35mm camera by veteran cinematographer Francisco Gózon, Iska’s Journey eschews a straightforward plot, emotional grandstanding or easy moral messages, lending the film an authentic, documentary feel. The result is a moving portrayal of the ravages of one girl’s world and the corrupt people for whom she is nothing but currency.

Contact: Merkelfilm
c/o Magyar Filmunió, 38 Városligeti fasor, 1068 Budapest, Hungary.
T: (36-1) 351-7760   F: (36-1) 352-6734

Remote Sensing
In Ursula Biemanns latest video, she traces the routes and reasons of  women who travel across the globe for work in the sex industry. By using the latest images from NASA satellites, the film investigates the consequences of the U.S. military presence in South East Asia as well as European migration politics. This video-essay takes an earthly perspective on cross-border circuits, where women have emerged as key actors and expertly links new geographic technologies to the sexualization and displacement of women on a global scale. By revealing how technologies of marginalization affect women in their sexuality, "Remote Sensing" aspires to displace and resignify the feminine within sexual difference and cultural representation.

Contact Information: http://www.wmm.com/catalog/pages/c564.htm
Website: http://www.curatingdegreezero.org/u_biemann/u_biemann.html

Sisters and Daughters Betrayed
A stunning video about the realities of sex trafficking and forced prostitution by independent video producer Chela Blitt, made with the financial support of a group of Global Fund donors. 

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URL:  www.globalfundforwomen.org (Click on resources for sale)
Cost:  $25 for individual use, discounts for students and activists

Chameli
Filmed on location in Nepal's Annapurnas and Terai, Bombay and the Indo-Nepal borders, "Chameli" tells the story of the betrayal of a fifteen-year old girl from a remote Himalayan village, who was forced into prostitution in Bombay, and later tragically returns to her village after contracting HIV.

Contact information:  Media Alert and Relief Foundation, PO Box 8530, Kathmandu, Nepal;
Tel:  977-1-431-102, Fax: 977-1-430-936
Website: http://www.nepalnews.com.np/contents/englishweekly/spotlight/2000/apr/apr28/national10.htm

The Silent Revolution
This is the story of people held in slavery in the stone quarries of northern India, who risk everything to take back their lives. They live in desperate conditions–but they are extraordinarily happy because they are free after generations of slavery. The Silent Revolution follows a group of stone-breakers as they challenge the slaveholders, are burned out of their homes by the slaveholder’s thugs, are imprisoned and finally win the right to run their own quarry and start a new village.

Website: www.freetheslaves.net http://www.freetheslaves.net/Page.aspx?pid=319

Girl Trafficking
A docu-drama that depicts the process of trafficking of young girls from the rural hills of Nepal to the brothels in India. Filmed in Sindhupalchowk and Bombay, it deals with the social ostracization of girls infected with HIV/AIDS.
Contact information:  PO Box 2682, Gyaneshore, Kathmandu, Nepal
Tel. Phone: 977-1-413662, Fax: 977-1-413662,
Email:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , Sponsored by:  Canadian Co-operation Office/Lazimpat, Kathmandu 

Hell On Earth: Slavery Today
This film focuses on modern forms of slavery which affect more than 12 million people around the world today. Footage was shot in 2006 in Niger and the Philippines and interviews with those directly affected by slavery practices. It also features extended interviews with anti-slavery activists from different countries and with those who have been subjected to slavery practices

Website: http://www.antislavery.org/2007/resources.html#educational.

In The Flesh
In the Flesh, directed by Bishakha Datta, points to the stigma attached to sex work, to the different ways in which society perceives different spheres of work. In the Flesh was recently screened in Bangalore by Point of View, an NGO from Mumbai, Vimochana and Asian Women Human Rights Council (AWHRC), Bangalore, and Sangram, Sangli. The film is an exploration of the lives of three sex workers — Shabana, Uma, and Bhaskar.

Contact information:  Point of View (AV media on women's issues) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Tel: 493-4478, 493-4560. 2, New Pushpa  Milan, Worli Hills, Mumbai, 400-018.
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Ghosts
This is film based on a true story. Ai Qin, a young Chinese girl from Fujian, China, borrows $25,000 to pay Snakeheads to smuggle her into the UK illegally so she can support her son and family back in China. One in the UK she becomes another one of 3 million migrant workers that are the bedrock of its food supply chain, construction and hospitaliy industries. She lives with eleven other Chinese in a two-bedroom suburban house. With illegally forged work permits, they work in factories preparing food for British supermarkets. In their search for better paying jobs to repay their debts they end up cockling in Morecambe Bay at night. On February 5th 2004 twenty three Chinese drowned in Morecambe, their families in China are still paying off their debts.

Website: http://www.nickbroomfield.com/ghosts.html
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The Selling of Innocents
"The Selling of Innocents" an Emmy award winning documentary film made by the founder Ms. Ruchira Gupta portrays the trafficking of women and children from Nepal to the brothels of Mumbai. The film is also dubbed into Nepali, Hindi and Bengali. It is available for NGOs, academics and academia to use for advocacy purposes.

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Website:www.apneaap.org, www.adventuredivas.com/divas/article.view?page=231

Out Of Reach
Vietnam veteran William Lansing (Steven Seagal), a former CSA agent who now works on a wildlife refuge in Northern Alaska, has been exchanging letters in a pen-pal relationship with Irina Morawska (Ida Nowakowska), a 13-year-old orphaned girl in Poland that he's helping out financially.When the letters suddenly stop coming, Lansing heads to Poland to figure out the reason. He discovers that the orphanage that Irena was staying in is a cover for a human trafficking network. Run by a man named Faisal (Matt Schulze), the operation is worth billions—girls are sold and traded to the highest bidders from all over the world. Through his letters to Irina, Lansing has taught Irina how to use secret codes, which she uses to keep him updated on where Faisal is taking her to. Lansing stays on Faisal's trail, teaming up with local cop Kasia Lato (Agnieszka Wagner) to rescue Irina and the other girls, and bring down Faisal's human trafficking network.

Website: www.amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/Out-Reach-Steven-Seagal/dp/B000255LCK/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1239116749&sr=8-1

The Children We Sacrifice
Shot in India, Sri Lanka, Canada and the US, The Children We Sacrifice is a 61-minute video documentary that explores the universal crime of incestuous sexual abuse through the prism of South Asian experience. Through stories by women abused from as young as two, the 61-minute video looks at the social and cultural resistance to dealing with incest and how it affects South Asian women on two continents.

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Website:  http://www.shaktiproductions.net/tcws.html

Slave
Tale of Tatiana (Erinn Strain), a young Russian woman who arrives in Chicago via a newspaper ad thinking she’s going to work as an au pair but is drugged, raped and put to work as “a human ATM”: a dancer-cum-prostitute with no options and no hope of escape. Her tale alternates with the antics of a Chicago theater troupe dramatizing the plight of unsuspecting women like Tatiana.

Website: http://slave-themovie.com/
Contact Information: Waitergonebad Productions, Inc
tel and fax 323.908.4031 

Dreams Die Hard
Filmmaker Peggy Callahan profiles several people trapped in slavery across the United States. Maria was enslaved as a domestic servant and victim of sexual exploitation in southern California. “Miguel” was enslaved in Florida, where his captor used violence to force him and many others to harvest tomatoes. Christy and Rose were enslaved in Maryland, where they worked as domestic servants after being taken from their native Cameroon.

Webste: www.freetheslaves.net http://www.freetheslaves.net/Page.aspx?pid=318

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The Price of Sugar
This documentary profiles Father Christopher Hartley, a Spanish priest who travels to the Dominican Republic to stop a modern-day slavery operation. The film examines the inhumane conditions that thousands of Haitian men are forced to work in to harvest sugar cane.

Website: http://www.thepriceofsugar.com/

Turning a Corner
Turning a Corner documents a workshop facilitated by Beyondmedia Education with prostitution Alternatives Round Table(PART) to give voice to people in the sex trade industry and expose the harsh realities of street prostitution in Chicago. The film tells the women's stories of survival and triumph over homelessness, violence and discrimination and gives rare insights to Chicago's sex industry. 

Contact: Chicago Coalition for the Homeless 312-435-4548
               Prostitution Alternatives Round Table (PART)
Website: www.beyondmedia.org

Kalighat-er Adi Katha (An old tale from Kalighat)
Produced by students from the St. Xavier's College, Nepal,the film denotes the issue of child trafficking.

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The Price of Youth
The Price of Youth examines the recent explosion in the systematic trafficking of young girls and women from Nepal for forced prostitution.

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No 556, 13th Lane, Kamathipura, Mumbai
Film shows a raid on a brothel in Mumbai, India.  Director's Note:   The rescue operation shown in No. 556 was done at the request of enslaved girls.  They sent word through customers begging for police or NGO intervention.

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Salaam Bombay
Shot entirely on location, this narrative film, Salaam Bombay tells the story of a group of children surviving on the streets of Bombay.

Contact information:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ,  Mirabai Films, New York -  (646) 486-4387
Website:  http://www.mirabaifilms.com/home.html,  http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Nair.html

The Girls
A 55-minute documentary on the trafficking of girls for prostitution from Nepal to India. Tin Girls, one of the Valor Humano (Human Value) series of documentaries produced by Canal Plus, was first inspired by the magazine feature When No Means Never Again, written by Chelo Alvarez with the help of Anjana Shakya, President of HimRights, and published by Planeta Humano magazine, Spain.

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Trafficking, Migration and HIV AIDS
In the South Asian scenario HIV/AIDS presents one of the major development challenges especially in the face of the extent of trafficking and migration across the borders which are exceptionally porous in India-Nepal and India -Bangladesh. Migration, trafficking and HIV/AIDS are symptoms of poverty and social inequity, gender inequality and human rights violations.

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Trading Women
Trading Women enters the worlds of brothel owners, trafficked girls, voluntary sex workers, corrupt police and anxious politicians. Filmed in Burma, China, Laos, and Thailand, this is the first film to follow the trade of women in all its complexity and to consider the impact of this 'far away' problem on the global community.

By David A. Feingold, narrated by Angelina Jolie
VHS color, 60 min, 2003, sale $195, rental $50
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Under The Tin Roof
This docu-drama is a typical story about trafficking. The deprived, drudgery and hardship in a girl's life is shown as a reason. It is a short story in the village of Sindhupalchowk.  She is lured by a pimp with false promises of a better life in the city. The girl is trafficked across the borders and subjected to violence and drug for forcible induction to prostitution. Life in the brothel is shown as one marked by daily physical abuse, beating, gang rape and psychological torment. The physical health of the brothel girls are ignored, and they become susceptible to infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and other STDs. Once they are physically unfit, they are deported back to their home town. Once home the girls is totally isolated by her own family and her last day are lonely and torturous.

Contact information:  Post Box 8205, Kathmandu, Nepal, Tel: +977 1 429302
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Winner of the Arte-Documentary Award for Best German Documentary, this chilling investigation examines the booming sex-trafficking industry in Bosnia and Kosovo, and boldly explores the disturbing role of the UN peacekeeping forces and the local military in perpetuating this tragic situation.

Website: http://www.wmm.com/filmCatalog/pages/c651.shtml

Modern Heros, Modern Slaves
Each day, thousands of women leave under developed countries like the Philippines to seek work as domestics in more prosperous places. What little money they earn they send home to their families. This crucial source of revenue to their country’s economy has prompted the Philippine government to call these contract workers "modern day heroes."

Starting from the case of Flor Contemplacion, the Philippine maid hanged in Singapore for the killing of her abusive employer, this film shows the human and sometimes tragic side of this organized labor trade : failed marriages, family break ups, and exploitation and abuse at the hands of unscrupulous employers. The film also takes us to a shelter in Saudi Arabia where abused domestics seek refuge. These women will ultimately return home penniless.

The Philippine government sponsors training courses for young women to become nightclub dancers abroad, and facilitates their transportation. When it comes to human rights violations, however, the government is reluctant to pressure foreign governments for fear of losing revenue. This leaves women migrant workers vulnerable to exploitation.

Contact Information: Productions Multi-Monde
4067 boul. St-Laurent, bur. 201
Montréal, Québec, Canada
H2W 1Y7
Tel : +1 514 842-4047
Fax : +1 514 842-9858
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Website: http://www.pmm.qc.ca/english/spip.php?article13

Say I do
Say I Do chronicles the stories of three "mail-order brides" from the Philippines now living in North America. It is a documentary chronicling the journey of four women, from their lives in the Philippines, through the mail-order bride system to their experiences as wives, mothers, and women in a foreign land.

Website: http://www.filmakers.com/index.php?a=filmDetail&filmID=1234

Tapoori
Thousands of children live on the streets of Bombay, India. They are scorned by the public as beggars and thieves and called tapoori, meaning dirty street kids. This video provides a candid look at the lives of two such young boys. In their world, survival means being tough, working hard, and paying protection money to the right people.

Website: https://www.filmakers.com/index.php?a=filmDetail&filmID=787

Trafficking Cinderella
The documentary is a journey into a macabre world which most of us prefer to believe could never exist. Trafficking Cinderella features the gut wrenching testimonies of broken dreams, withered illusions, rape and humiliation from several Eastern European girls sold as prostitutes throughout the world.

Contact: Mira Niagolova, Miran Productions
5 Heathherbush Road, Essex JCT, VT 05452
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Slavery: A Global Investigation
An 80-minute documentary, inspired by Free the Slaves President Kevin Bales' award-winning book Disposable people, exposing cases of slavery around the world; from the rug-making sector of Northwest India to the home of a World Bank Official in Washington, DC.

Website: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8510275415580537193#

Dramatic Films

Bucharest Express
An American journalist, a mysterious Gypsy woman and a bookkeeper with an inside angle try to stay one step ahead of a gang of ruthless killers as they uncover the horrors of the human trafficking of sex slaves in the Balkans. Countries throughout the former Soviet Union provide a chilling backdrop to a tangled web of corruption, betrayal and romance as this unlikely band of heroes tries to uncover the secrets of the flesh-for-heroin trade.

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In a harrowing fictional account based on all-too-real conditions, the 2006 Academy Awards qualifier written and directed by an FSU film student tells the story of Mudan, a young Chinese girl forced into an Asian underworld of child prostitution and modern-day slavery by a brutal brothel owner. The child's only hope is her dream of a new life in America with her mother.

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Human Trafficking
Mira Sorvino and Donald Sutherland star in this thrilling movie that traces the routes of several women and children as they are bought and sold by international traffickers. This dramatic film, Lifetime Television's original movie, illustrates several forms of human trafficking, particularly the sexual exploitation of women and young children. It captures the stories of victims, perpetrators, and those working to stop trafficking.

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Holly
Shot on location in Cambodia, including many scenes in the actual brothels in the notorious red light district of Phnom Penh, HOLLY is a captivating, touching, and emotional experience.

Website: www.priorityfilms.com

Lilja 4-ever
"Lilja 4-Ever," a Swedish film released in 2003 depicting the struggles of Lilja (Okshana Akinshina), a16-year-old girl living in an unidentified ex-Soviet republic. Her mother abandons her in the slums of the city to move to the U.S. and Lilja turns to prostitution as a way to support herself. When Swedish businessman Andrei (Panel Ponomaryov) appears and promises to save Lilja from the slums, her situation appears to be improving, but it is only the beginning of the problems she will face.

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Svetlana's Journey
"Svetlana's Journey" is a new film about a 13 year old Bulgarian girl who is sold into prostitution by her adopted parents. Written and directed by Michael Corey Davis, it gives a gruesome look into the world of child trafficking. New Age Media Concepts reports that four million people around the world are victims of human trafficking, a lucrative business with an estimated annual turnover of at least 15 billion US dollars.

Website: http://www.svetlanasjourney.com/
Contact: Belinda Bass, DEBOUCHE ENTERTAINMENT
818-426-4227, http://www.michaelcorydavis.com/

Taxi Driver
Mentally unstable Vietnam vet Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) drives a nocturnal cab through the sleaziest streets of pregentrified New York City and befriends prostituted children (i.e. victim of human trafficking) played by Jodie Foster. Along the way, the morally righteous Bickle slowly loses his mind, turning into a well-armed, homicidal vigilante. De Niro, director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader create a violently prophetic, gripping vision of urban decay and insanity.

Available at: Blockbuster, Netflix, Amazon.com

Trade
Trade examines the trafficking of women and children across the U.S. and Mexico boarder. This movie follows the stories of several victims who are trafficked from Mexico City into the U.S. to be sold for the purposes of sexual exploitation.

News Investigations

Children for Sale
Dateline reports on the illegal sex industry that victimizes Cambodian children, and the efforts to stop it.

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Child Camel Jockeys - Modern-Day Slavery
This is the Emmy and duPont award-winning documentary by HBO about the plight of thousands of children working as camel jockeys in the Middle East. This documentary focuses on the work of Ansar Burney in the United Arab Emirates to save the innocent children and bring to an end this form of child slavery.

Website: www.ansarburney.org/videolinks/video-hbo1.html

Sex Slaves
FRONTLINE presents a unique hidden camera look at the 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 by posing as a trafficker himself to buy back her freedom.

Website: www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/slaves/