Name
of film: Dying to Leave
Type: Documentary - Two part series
Countries included: Australia
Subject: Sex Trafficking
Directors: Chris Hilton, Aaron Wolf of
Hilton Cordell Productions
Date of film: 2004
Length: 104 minutes
Contact Email: hcp@hiltoncordell.com
URL: www.hiltoncordell.com
www.roninfilms.com.au/feature/2396439441
Info on Film: Episode One
entitled Human Cargo examines the dramatic
increase in illegal smuggling of people.
Episode Two, Slaves of the Free Market explores
human trafficking that includes a new kind of
indentured servitude where impossible debt is
combined with brutal working conditions.
This episode continues the story, charting her
terror upon realizing she has been sold into
prostitution and, after three years, her eventual
escape from torment.
Name
of film: Trafficked
Type: Documentary
Countries included: Australia
Subject: Sex Trafficking
Directors: Luigi Acquisto
Date of film: Expected Release - 2005
Length: 60 minutes
Contact Email: Luigi Acquisto - abrafilms@abrafilms.com
URL: http://www.innersense.com.au/mif/acquisto.html
Info on Film: Acquisto is
currently in post-production on Trafficked, a one
hour documentary for SBS on the subject of sex
trafficking from S.E. Asia into Australia. Trafficked tells the story of a former Australian Federal
Police officer, Chris Payne's ongoing
investigation into the fate of two young Thai
girls trafficked to Australia: Nikki, a thirteen
year old Thai girl found in a Sydney brothel in
1995, and, Phuongtong Simpalee, a 27 year old Thai
woman who died in custody at the Villawood
Detention centre in 2000. The film will follow
Chris Payne as he investigates stories of women
and children caught up in prostitution’s
‘trade routes’ in Australia, Thailand and
Cambodia. Payne is a former Australian Federal
Police officer who headed a special task force
formed to combat sex trafficking in the mid 1990s.
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