crazy amount of documentaries on Nepal trafficking

[sam]

This link to the Captive Daughters website was brought to my attention recently and holy shit. I knew there were some documentaries made on sex trafficking of the females of Nepal, but I didn't know there were this effing many. Nepal is not a very big country, but look at all these attempts to expose the organized femicide of minority women from just this one region of Southeast Asia.

All these minority women doing all this critical work while Bill Gates and Bono make Time's "Persons of the Year" is like the snub the movie The Color Purple got at the 1985 Academy Awards. Out of Africa soooo did not deserve that award more than The Color Purple.

http://www.captivedaughters.org/filmNepal-India.htm

Name of film: Born Into Brothels
Type: Documentary
Countries included: India
Subject: Sex Trafficking
Directors/Producers: Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman
Date of film: 2004
Length: 85 minutes
Contact Email: RossKauffman@earthlink.net

Info on Film: The most stigmatized people in Sonagachi, Calcutta's red light district, are not the prostitutes, but their children. In the face of abject poverty, abuse, and despair, these kids have little possibility of escaping their mother's fate or for creating another type of life. Devoid of sentimentality, Born into Brothels defies the typical tear-stained tourist snapshot of the global underbelly. Briski spends years with these kids and becomes part of their lives. Their photographs are prisms into their souls, rather than anthropological curiosities or primitive imagery, and a true testimony of the power of the indelible creative spirit.

Name of Film: Chameli
Type: Feature, dramatic film
Countries included: Nepal and India
Subject: Trafficking & HIV/AIDs
Director: Ravi Baral, ravibaral@wlink.com.np
Length: feature length
Contact information: Media Alert and Relief Foundation, PO Box 8530, Kathmandu, Nepa;
Tel: 977-1-431-102, Fax: 977-1-430-936
URL: http://www.nepalnews.com.np/contents/ englishweekly/spotlight/2000/apr/apr28/national10.htm

Info on Film: a full-length movie on girl trafficking and HIV/AIDS, was produced by the NGO Media Alert and Relief Foundation with private funds and with support from the Government of Nepal, The POLICY Project (a USAID project implemented by The Futures Group International) and UNIFEM. Filmed on location in Nepal's Annapurnas and Terai, Bombay and the Indo-Nepal borders, "Chameli" tells the story of the betrayal of a fifteen-year old girl from a remote Himalayan village, who was forced into prostitution in Bombay, and later tragically returns to her village after contracting HIV. The film was made to sensitize Nepali communities and to challenge the government to confront the girl trafficking problem. In Nepali with English subtitles.

Name of Film: The Day My God Died
Type: Documentary
Countries Included: Nepal, India
Subject: Sex Trafficking
Director: Andrew Levine
Date of Film: 2003
Length: 55 minutes
Contact Information: levine@xmission.com
URL: http://www.thedaymygoddied.comI

Name of Film: Four Years in Hell
Type: Documentary
Countries included: Nepal and India
Subject: Sold to Prostitution
Director: Frode Hoje Pedersen for DR TV
Date of film: New Releases From Filmakers Library
Length: 25 minutes Video. Sale $295. Rental $55.
URL: http://www.filmakers.com/indivs/Four_Years_in_Hell.htm

Info on Film: This is the story of one young girl who was sold to a brothel in India. Trafficking in women is big business in Nepal. Young girls are often sold by their own families, kidnapped to other countries and lose both their freedom and innocence. This is the tragic story about one such girl, Chakkali Bal. She had been living a hard life in the hills of Nepal when at the age of eleven she received an offer of marriage. This was a subterfuge; her "husband" and aunt had sold her to a brothel in India. In India, Chakkali was forced to work as a prostitute until freed by the Indian police four years later. She returned to her family in Nepal only to discover she was HIV positive. The courageous young woman is now employed by an organization that works to stop the traffic in women and to educate young people about HIV/AIDS. Chakkali has married and has found some happiness. She says "I will die soon, but I hope I will save a few lives before that."

Name of Film: Girl Trafficking
Type: Documentary
Countries included: Nepal and India
Type: Documentary
Subject: Process of Trafficking
Director: Production: Manushi for Sustainable Development
Date of film: 1994
Length: 45 min. video film is a docu-drama
Contact information: PO Box 2682, Gyaneshore, Kathmandu, Nepal
Tel. Phone: 977-1-413662, Fax: 977-1-413662,
Email: thacker@sai.mos.com.np, Sponsored by: Canadian Co-operation Office/Lazimpat, Kathmandu

Info on Film: 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.

Name of film: Highway to Hell
Type: Documentary
Countries included: Nepal, India
Subject: Trafficking
Director: Meera Dewan with Niraja Rao
Date of film: 2000
Length: 38 min. in English
Contact information: Multiple Action Research Group (MARG), 125 Shahpur Jat, 2nd Floor, Near Asiad Village, New Delhi - 110 049. Tel: 91 11 649 7483. Fax: 91 11 649 5371
E-mail: marg@del2.vsnl.net.in, meeradewan@vsnl.com, Tel: 614 4782, 614 2303
URL: http://hdrc.undp.org.in/childrenandpoverty/ REFERENC/FILMS/HTH/hth.htm

Info on Film: A film on cross border trafficking of girls for prostitution - from Nepal to India. Exploring prostitution against the background of violence against human rights violations - looking at the situation of the girls and the families and the attitude of male clients. produced by Southview Productions for MARG (Multiple Action Research Group) funded by CIDA. CIDA's South Asia Regional Gender Fund.

Name of Film: In The Flesh
Type: Documentary
Countries included: India
Subject: Prostitution
Director: Bishakha Datta
Date of film: 2002
Length: 52 min.
Contact information: Point of View (AV media on women's issues) datta@bom3.vsnl.net.in
Tel: 493-4478, 493-4560. 2, New Pushpa Milan, Worli Hills, Mumbai, 400-018.
Email: bishakha@vsnl.com
URL: http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/ southasiacenter/in_the_flesh.htm

Name of film: KALIGHAT-er ADI KATHA (An old tale from Kalighat)
Type: Documentary
Countries included: Nepal
Subject: Child Trafficking
Director: Produced by students from the St. Xavier's College, Nepal
Contact information: roopsen@hotmail.com, rrivulaha@vsnl.net (for purchasing)

Name of Film: No 556, 13th Lane, Kamathipura, Mumbai
Type: Documentary Short
Director: Sushmita Basnet
Date: 2003
Length: 17 minutes
Email: bigtree_pictures@rediffmaiml.com

Info on Film: Film shows a raid on a brothel in Mumbai, India. Director's Note: The rescue operation shown in No. 556 was done at the request of enslaved girls. They sent word through customers begging for police or NGO intervention.

Name of Film: The Price of Youth
Type: Documentary Short
Countries included: Nepal and India
Subject: Trafficking
Director: WITNESS
Date of film: 2000
Length: Running Time 9:20
Cost: $25.00 Video and Domestic shipping and handling, $40.00 Video and International shipping and handling
Contact Information: witness@witness.org
URL: http://www.witness.org

Info on Film: 'The Price of Youth' examines the recent explosion in systematic trafficking of young girls and women from Nepal to work as prostitutes in Bombay, in neighboring India. 'The Price of Youth' exposes this horrific practice. It documents grassroots efforts to combat the forced prostitution of Nepali girls and to rehabilitate these young victims.

Name of Film: Salaam Bombay
Type: Feature dramatic film
Countries included: India
Subject: Children's life in the brothels
Director: Mira Nair
Date of film: 1988
Contact information: mira@mirabaifilms.com, Mirabai Films, New York - (646) 486-4387
URL: http://www.mirabaifilms.com/home.html, http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Nair.html

Info on Film: The main character Krishna/Chaipau spends his time as a runner for a tea shop in a neighborhood replete with prostitution and the drug trade. It is in the teeming environment of the streets that Krishna must save 500 rupees before he returns to his village. At the same time several episodes serve to demonstrate the hopelessness of everyone's condition.

Name of Film: The Selling of Innocents
Type: Documentary
Countries Included: Nepal, India
Subject: Child slavery and brothels
Director: Ruchira Gupta
Date of Film: 1997
Length: 57 minutes
Contact Info: Email apneeaap2003@vsnl.net for purchase information on the film
URL:www.apneaap.org, http://www.adventuredivas.com/divas/art ... w?page=231

Info on Film: The Selling of Innocents is a documentary exposing the trafficking in young women and children from the villages of Nepal to the brothels of Mumbai. The camera pans the hovels in the red-light area where these women service clients to earn money to support their families in Nepal. It is a sordid tale, told with rare feeling and sensitivity. Selling of Innocents wastes no time on gimmicks. It goes straight to the heart of the matter by showing the pain and the horror of the innocent victims of a system which has long been there. Winner of the 1997 Emmy in News and Journalism. Shown on Cinemax and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Name of Film: Sisters and Daughters Betrayed
Type: Documentary
Countries included: Nepal, Thailand, Phillippines
Subject: Slavery in Prostitution
Director: Chela Blitt, Producer
Date of film: 1995
Length: 28 min.
Contact information: orders@globalfundforwomen.org
URL: http://www.globalfundforwomen.org (Click on resources for sale)
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: Tapoori
Type: Documentary
Countries included: India
Subject: Children of Bombay
Director: Alan Handel Productions
Date of film: Not Known
Length: 26 minutes
Availability: For Sale $225. Rental $55
URL: http://www.filmakers.com/indivs/Tapoori.htm

Info on Film: Tapoori is a visually stunning film, and a powerful human story of survival. It is an intimate and candid look at two street boys in Bombay. Subra is fourteen years old and has been living at the Victoria Railway Station for three years. He survives through toughness, guile and hard work, but since he is small he has to pay off the older boys for protection. The film follows Subra as he decides whether to stay on the streets where he is lonely and vulnerable, or return home to his village and family, where in the past he had been beaten by his father. Anwar is sixteen years old and has been living on the streets of Bombay's red light district since he lost both his parents when he was eight. The other street boys are Anwar's family now. They earn money by picking trash from the streets and selling what they find at the market. To escape their dreary life, they inhale glue, they patronize the local prostitutes, and visit the video parlours. While there are some social workers that reach out to them, there is little that can be done to improve their lives.

Name of film: The Children We Sacrifice
Type: Documentary
Countries included: India, Sri Lanka, Canada and the United States
Subject: Child Incestouous 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.

Name of Film: Tin Girls
Type: Documentary
Countries included: Nepal, India
Subject: Slavery in Prostitution
Director: Miguel Bardem, for Canal Plus, Spain
Date of film: 2003
Length: 55 minutes
URL: http://innerlens.com/masalaproject/tingirlsdoc.htmlI

Name of film: Trafficking, Migration and HIV AIDS
Type: Documentary
Countries included: India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
Subject: Migration, trafficking & HIV/AIDS
Director: Abha Dayal and Puneet Tandon
Date of film: 1999
Contact information: partha@drik.net, abhadayal@hotmail.com
Tel, home: (91-11) 225-0193, 225-8812, Tel/fax: 271-9719. 98103-43340, -32103. A-6 Navbharat Times Apts., Mayur Vihar, Phase 1, New Delhi. swativis@nde.vsnl.net.in
URL: http://www.hivnet.ch:8000/asia/bangladesh/view?69

Info on Film: In the South Asian scenario HIV/AIDS presents one of the major development challenges especially in the face of the extent of trafficking and migration across the borders which are exceptionally porous in India-Nepal and India -Bangladesh. Migration, trafficking and HIV/AIDS are symptoms of poverty and social inequity, gender inequality and human rights violations.

Name of Film: Under the Tin Roof
Type: Documentary
Countries included: Nepal
Subject: Trafficking
Director: Developed/Written, Designed by Center for Women and Development (CWD)
Contact information: Post Box 8205, Kathmandu, Nepal, Tel: +977 1 429302
Email: cwd@mail.com.np

Info on Film: This docu-drama is a typical story about trafficking. The deprived, drudgery and hardship in a girl's life is shown as a reason. It is a short story in the village of Sindhupalchowk. She is lured by a pimp with false promises of a better life in the city. The girl is trafficked across the borders and subjected to violence and drug for forcible induction to prostitution. Life in the brothel is shown as one marked by daily physical abuse, beating, gang rape and psychological torment. The physical health of the brothel girls are ignored, and they become susceptible to infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and other STDs. Once they are physically unfit, they are deported back to their home town. Once home the girls is totally isolated by her own family and her last day are lonely and torturous.

[oneangrygirl]

for a second i thought this was some kind of trafficking film festival and i was thinking i'd probably have to shoot myself after i attended.

[gerry]

for a second i thought this was some kind of trafficking film festival and i was thinking i'd probably have to shoot myself after i attended.

:!: i'm in stitches.

lilya 4-ever was enuf for me for awhile (and that was a feature film--not a docu)