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: Remote Sensing
Type: Documentary-Video Essay
Countries included: Global
Subject: Migration and the Sex Industry
Director: Ursula Biemann
Date of film: 2001
Length: 53 minutes
Contact Information: http://www.wmm.com/catalog/pages/c564.htm
URL: http://www.curatingdegreezero.org/u_biemann/u_biemann.html
Info on Film: 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.
Also by Ms. Biemann - "Performing the
Border" (1999) on the U.S. Mexican border
and the women in the high-tech industry and in the
entertainment industry/prostitution.
Name of Film: Sisters and Daughters
Betrayed
Countries included: Global Perspective
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: So Great a Violence:
Prostitution & Trafficking & Global Sex
Industry
Type: Documentary
Countries included: Global
Subject: Prostitution and the Sex Industry
Director: Coalition Against the Trafficking
in Women
Date of film: 2000
Length: 29 minutes
Contact Information: Fax: 413-367-9262
URL: www.catwinternational.org
Info on Film: The global sex
industry can be challenged and its destruction of
the human rights of women and children can be
stopped--but only if there is the political will.
This film inspires a campaign of zero tolerance of
sexual exploitation if the promise of the
universal human rights is to be realized.
Name
of film: The Children We Sacrifice
Type: Documentary
Countries included: India, Sri Lanka, Canada
and the United States
Subject: Child Incestuous Sexual Abuse
Director: Grace Poore
Date of film: 2000
Length: 61 minutes
Contact information: shaktivideo@aol.com
URL: http://www.shaktiproductions.net/tcws.html
Info on Film: This evocative, visually
powerful documentary is about incestuous sexual
abuse of the South Asian girl. By interweaving
survivors' narratives, including the producer's
own story, with interviews with South Asian mental
health professionals, and with statistical
information, as well as poetry and art, "The
Children We Sacrifice" discloses the many
layers of a subject traditionally shrouded in
secrecy. Insights into the far-reaching
psychological, social and cultural consequences of
incest are accompanied by thoughtful assessments
of strategies that have helped adult women cope
with childhood trauma. The video also analyzes
social and cultural resistance in South Asia and
the Diaspora to dealing with incest's causes and
its effects on its victims. This personal and
collective letter from South Asian incest
survivors and their advocates is both a validation
of their struggle and a compelling charge to
protect future generations of children better.
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