Mar.12: Justice Film Fest screening: The Price of Sex
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Grant Neufeld
Feb 12, 2013, 6:34:22 PM2/12/13
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THE PRICE OF SEX
Written, Directed and Produced by Mimi Chakarova, 2011
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 7:00 pm
River Park Church Auditorium
3818 - 14A Street SW
Free admission.
“Sixty-four years after the U.N. General Assembly signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we continue to witness the sale of human beings and the degradation of women's bodies and minds”
The Price of Sex is an investigative journey into the underground sex trafficking market where young rural Eastern European women have been drawn into slavery, rape, and abuse as poverty pushes them to leave their hometowns, for survival, when promises of working abroad lead them to being sold into a world of pimps, brothels, and sex clubs. Intimate, harrowing and revealing, the Price of Sex brings Chakarova face to face with trafficked women willing to trust her and appear on film undisguised. The story told through personal accounts by the very survivors who were supposed to be silenced by shame, fear and violence.
Photojournalist Chakarova, who grew up in Bulgaria, seeks to shine light on the shadowy underbelly of globalization, give a voice to women, expose the root causes of why women continue to be sold into prostitution against their will, and examines what can be done to stop it. 72 minutes
Winner of the 2011 Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting
Winner of the 2011 Nestor Almendros Award for courage in filmmaking, Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Conversation Leader:
Alisa Tukkimaki is the Action Coalition on human Trafficking (ACT) Calgary Coordinator. She has over ten years experience as both a front line and community development social worker in Calgary. With a focus on social justice and human rights, Alisa has worked and volunteered in the fields of homelessness and poverty reduction, HIV/AIDS, harm reduction, domestic violence, immigrant and refugee settlement, and counter-human trafficking. Alisa holds a Bachelor in Social Work and a Masters in International Community Development from the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary.
From a film festival sponsor:
“My People International presents Nestooaak: Building our Community’s Capacity; an interactive workshop themed ‘The Great Divide: challenges and options for change In Native / non-Native Relationships’ at River Park Church, 15-16 March 2013. Register at riverparkchurch.com.”
Presented by the Marda Loop Justice Film Festival:
http://www.justicefilmfestival.ca/
Twitter: @justicefilm
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/JusticeFilmFestival
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/JusticeFestivalFilm
Written, Directed and Produced by Mimi Chakarova, 2011
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 7:00 pm
River Park Church Auditorium
3818 - 14A Street SW
Free admission.
“Sixty-four years after the U.N. General Assembly signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we continue to witness the sale of human beings and the degradation of women's bodies and minds”
The Price of Sex is an investigative journey into the underground sex trafficking market where young rural Eastern European women have been drawn into slavery, rape, and abuse as poverty pushes them to leave their hometowns, for survival, when promises of working abroad lead them to being sold into a world of pimps, brothels, and sex clubs. Intimate, harrowing and revealing, the Price of Sex brings Chakarova face to face with trafficked women willing to trust her and appear on film undisguised. The story told through personal accounts by the very survivors who were supposed to be silenced by shame, fear and violence.
Photojournalist Chakarova, who grew up in Bulgaria, seeks to shine light on the shadowy underbelly of globalization, give a voice to women, expose the root causes of why women continue to be sold into prostitution against their will, and examines what can be done to stop it. 72 minutes
Winner of the 2011 Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting
Winner of the 2011 Nestor Almendros Award for courage in filmmaking, Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Conversation Leader:
Alisa Tukkimaki is the Action Coalition on human Trafficking (ACT) Calgary Coordinator. She has over ten years experience as both a front line and community development social worker in Calgary. With a focus on social justice and human rights, Alisa has worked and volunteered in the fields of homelessness and poverty reduction, HIV/AIDS, harm reduction, domestic violence, immigrant and refugee settlement, and counter-human trafficking. Alisa holds a Bachelor in Social Work and a Masters in International Community Development from the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary.
From a film festival sponsor:
“My People International presents Nestooaak: Building our Community’s Capacity; an interactive workshop themed ‘The Great Divide: challenges and options for change In Native / non-Native Relationships’ at River Park Church, 15-16 March 2013. Register at riverparkchurch.com.”
Presented by the Marda Loop Justice Film Festival:
http://www.justicefilmfestival.ca/
Twitter: @justicefilm
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/JusticeFilmFestival
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/JusticeFestivalFilm
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