From the Not For Sale Film website “Based on the book Not For Sale by David Batstone, covers what modern-day abolitionists are doing to fight the rampant terrors of human trafficking in the US and abroad. Traveling over 120,000 miles…
• Nefarious I – Merchant of Souls, 2011. “Nefarious, Merchant of Souls, is a hard-hitting documentary that exposes the disturbing trends in modern sex slavery. From the very first scene, Nefarious ushers you into the nightmare of sex slavery that…
This film is more about drug trafficking than human trafficking, though the economic pressures and family & social dynamics are similar. Still, this Berlin and Sundance Film Festival award winner is powerful. • Here’s a description from New Line Cinema’s…
A film about the unlikely friendship between a troubled family from Harlem and a woman from Moldova who narrowly escapes the sex trade. Here’s a description from the website for Junto Box Films: Magnificent Girl is the story of a…
• From Lilya 4-Ever at IMDB Lilya, 16 lives in Estonia, and dreams of traveling abroad to find a new life. Abandoned by her mother, who goes to the U.S. without her, Lilya turns to prostitution. She falls in love…
• Synopsis from the Kayan Beauties web site Three Kayan women decide to travel from their remote village in the Kayah State of Myanmar to sell handicrafts in the distant city of Taunggyi, in the Shan State. They are accompanied…
• The third film in the K11 Project (also Holly and Redlight) Produced by Priority Films, the K11 Project is the most comprehensive film project about child trafficking and child sexual exploitation to date. The name itself derives from a…
• From The Jammed website “A young Melbourne woman, Ashley Hudson, reluctantly agrees to help a Chinese mother search for her missing daughter. Hooked on caffeine and bored with her job and loveless life, Ashley is unwittingly drawn into the…
• IMDB info and cast – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0461872/fullcredits#cast • From IMDB and Echo Bridge Home Entertainment When a sixteen-year-old girl from the Ukraine, a single mother from Russia, an orphaned seventeen-year-old girl from Romania, and a twelve-year-old American tourist become the…
• Carl’s note: Holly is a fictional story, so it’s a little easier to stomach than some of the documentaries in this list. Also, Holly spares us from some of the raw brutality of human trafficking, though not all of…
