Title: No. 556, 13th Lane, Kamathipura, Mumbai
Director: Sushmita Basnet
Studio/Company: Bigtree Pictured
Year: 2003
Length: 17 min.
Website: http://www.captivedaughters.org/filmNepal-India.htm
Brief Description: Film shows a raid on a brothel in Mumbai, India.
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No. 556, 13th Lane, Kamathipura, Mumbai [multimedia resource]. Sushmita Basnet. Bigtree Pictured. 2003.
Posted in Asia, Documentary, International, Multimedia, Sex Trafficking, Sex Work/Sexuality
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Girl Trafficking [multimedia resource]. Manushi for Sustainable Development Media. 2004.
Title: Girl Trafficking
Studio/Company: Manushi for Sustainable Development Media
Year: 2004
Length: 45 min.
Website: http://www.captivedaughters.org/filmNepal-India.htm
Brief Description: 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.
Posted in Asia, Documentary, International, Multimedia, Sex Trafficking, Sex Work/Sexuality, Training/Educational Film
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Sisters and Daughters Betrayed [multimedia resource]. Chela Blitt, Producer. 1996.
Title: Sisters and Daughters Betrayed
Director: Chela Blitt, Producer
Year: 1996
Length: 28 min.
Website: http://www.captivedaughters.org/filmNepal-India.htm
Brief Description: This compelling video explores the social and economic forces that drive the lucrative underground trade of sex trafficking, and the devastating impact it has on women’s lives.
Posted in Asia, At Other TRLN, Documentary, International, Sex Trafficking, Sex Work/Sexuality
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Born into Brothels [film]
Title: Born into Brothels
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388789/
85 minutes; 2004.
Two documentary filmmakers chronicle their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the city’s notorious red light district.
Posted in Asia, At CWC, At UNC, Documentary, Electric, International, Recommended, Sex Work/Sexuality
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The Children We Sacrifice [multimedia resource]. Grace Poore. Shakti Productions. 2001.
Title: The Children We Sacrifice
Director: Grace Poore
Studio/Company: Shakti Productions
Year: 2001
Length: 61 min.
Website: http://www.shaktiproductions.net/tcws_synopsis.html
Brief Description: Shot in India, Sri Lanka, Canada and the US, The Children We Sacrifice 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, this short documentary looks at the social and cultural resistance to dealing with incest and how it affects South Asian women on two continents.
Posted in Asia, At Other TRLN, Documentary, Domestic, International, North America, Sex Work/Sexuality
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Rape is. . . [multimedia resource]. Cambridge Documentary Films.
Title: Rape is. . .
Studio/Company: Cambridge Documentary Films
Length: 32 min.
Website: http://www.cambridgedocumentaryfilms.org/rapeis.html
Brief Description: “Rape is…” explores the meaning and consequences of rape. This documentary looks at rape from a global and historical perspective, but focuses mainly on the domestic cultural conditions that make this human rights violation the most underreported crime in America.
Posted in At UNC, Documentary, Domestic, International, Multimedia, North America, Sex Work/Sexuality, Short Film
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Turning a Corner [multimedia resource]. Salome Chasnoff. Beyondmedia Education. 2006.
Title: Turning a Corner
Director: Salome Chasnoff
Studio/Company: Beyondmedia Education
Year: 2006
Length: 60 min.
Website: http://www.vimeo.com/1474159
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1424881/
Brief Description: This documentary provides insight into Chicago’s sex trade industry through including the experiences of 15 members of Prostitution Alternatives Round Table (PART). The experiences highlighted deal with homelessness, violence, and discrimination. Turning a Corner tells the stories of people who have been involved in sex work and emphasizes their attempts to raise awareness of the injustices and of the need for reforms within the industry.
Posted in Documentary, Domestic, North America, Sex Work/Sexuality
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Girls from Chaka Street [multimedia resource]. Antra Cilinska. Television Trust for the Environment. 1998.
Title: Girls from Chaka Street
Director: Antra Cilinska
Studio/Company: Television Trust for the Environment
Year: 1998
Length: 15 min.
Website: http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/girls.html
Brief Description: This documentary details the thriving sex trade within Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia which substantially burgeoned after the Baltic countries gained independence from the Soviet Union and were devastated by crashing economies. Girls from Chaka Street tells the stories of underage girls, who make more in a night than a doctor does in a whole month, and the physical and psychological dangers they face as Mafia involvement in the trade increases.
Posted in Documentary, Europe, International, Multimedia, Sex Trafficking, Sex Work/Sexuality, Short Film
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Iszka Utaz
Title: Iszka Utaz
Posted in Electric, Europe, Feature Film, International, Multimedia, Sex Trafficking, Sex Work/Sexuality
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Lilya 4-ever [multimedia resource]. Lukas Moodysson. Memfis Film. 2002.
Title: Lilya 4-ever
Director: Lukas Moodysson
Studio/Company: Memfis Film
Year: 2002
Length: 109 min.
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilya_4-ever
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0300140/
Brief Description: This is the stark, frank and disturbing vision of the life of a young victim of the underground sex trade from the perspective of Lilya, a young girl living in the Soviet Union. Abandoned by her mother, Lilya turns to prostitution to survive; shortly afterward, she is tricked into moving to Sweden only to be forced into prostitution and kept as a sex slave.
Posted in At Other TRLN, Europe, Feature Film, International, Multimedia, Sex Trafficking, Sex Work/Sexuality
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