SOLD, A FILM TO END CHILD TRAFFICKING, SAILS PAST IT' S GOAL OF 50K IN 7 DAYS

[polly7]

OF ITS INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN LAUNCH.

With 23 days left, SOLD hopes to raise the money to Screen in more Cities and Save more Children via their Education campaign, TaughtNotTrafficked

SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, October 27, 2015 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Oscar-winning Director Jeffrey Brown, Impact Producer Jane Charles, and two-time Oscar winning Executive Producer Emma Thompson have surpassed their goal of $50,0000 in seven days of their live crowd-funding campaign for the theatrical release of SOLD, featuring David Arquette, and Gillian Anderson. The Indiegogo campaign officially launched on October 19th: http://igg.me/at/soldindiegogo

Producer Jane Charles has commented, "We are overwhelmed with gratitude for all of the donations that have come in this week. The support that people are showing for the SOLD campaign is amazing. It shows that people really care about the world and those less fortunate. We’re excited that SOLD is a tool to bring an end to slavery and the world is ready to do something about the issue of human trafficking."

The campaign highlights perks rewarded to funders, including a referral contest for a trip to India or Nepal and packages with the acclaimed stars of SOLD: three nights in London at a 5-star hotel and breakfast with Gillian Anderson, and karaoke with David Arquette at his new club Blind Dragon in West Hollywood. Funders can also receive bracelets handmade by trafficking survivors and signed photographs from humanitarian photographer, Lisa Kristine.

Based on the international bestselling novel by Patricia McCormick, SOLD depicts the life of an extraordinary thirteen-year-old girl who is trafficked across the Nepal-India border and forced to work in a brothel in Kolkata, India. By telling one girl’s story, SOLD gives voice to the millions of trafficked children who are unheard and unseen.

NOTES TO EDITORS | Film log-lines:
Sold (2014), A young girl, Lakshmi, leaves her home in a quiet village in the Nepali Himalayas in the expectation of a job in big city India. However, upon her arrival in Kolkata, she soon realizes she has been trafficked into a prison brothel, where she must struggle daily to survive against impossible odds. A US photographer (Gillian Anderson) hears her cries for help and works with an NGO to spearhead a dangerous mission to rescue her. Finally, Lakshmi must risk everything for freedom. SOLD is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and a clarion call to action.

http://world.einnews.com/pr_news/293607143/sold-a-film-to-end-child-trafficking-sails-past-it-s-goal-of-50k-in-7-days-of-its-indiegogo-campaign-launch?n=2&code=aHwDEvzlke857hKl

[pacalo]

1. Welcome back, polly7!

[lovemydog]

2. Excellent.

Film is a very powerful way to tell a story and convey a message.

Thanks for this post polly7.

[polly7]

3. Thank you pacalo and lovemydog.

Here is a bit more on the movie from Huffington Post and their FaceBook page.

SOLD has been the opening night film in five film festivals, and won three audience awards and a jury award for Best Feature.

Organizations that have partnered with the film to spearhead efforts to protect children from trafficking include Childreach International, Walk Free, ECPAT (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes), United Way, Rotary Clubs International, Stolen Youth and others.

Says Brown:

Niyar is so smart, funny, grounded, and yet she can go to the very depths of sadness on cue, in an instant. She had done a few short films prior to SOLD, but this is her first feature and leading role. Niyar is one of the best actresses I have ever worked with of any age. She was 12 when we cast her and turned 13 on the first week of shooting.

He also noted that 13 is the average age of trafficked children, globally.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carla-escoda/emma-thompson-gillian-and_b_8357414.html

https://www.facebook.com/SOLDmovie



And this (not related to the movie) will break your heart:

Child victims of Nepal earthquake sold to factories and brothels by human traffickers

'We have rescued 26 children from the clutches of human traffickers in the past 20 days'

Lucy Clarke-Billings Tuesday 26 May 2015 14:23 BST5 comments

Child victims of the Nepal earthquake as young as eight are being rescued from people traffickers amid fears they will be sold into the sex trade.

Young survivors of the devastation are being targeted for work in sweatshops and brothels, according to campaigners.

Authorities in India now claim to have rescued 26 children pushed into slave labour work.

The 7.8-magnitude quake, which killed more than 8,600 people, destroyed rural areas and left hundreds of thousands homeless.

It is reported that parents from poor villages in northern India, who had been working as migrant labourers in Nepal, are being convinced by traffickers posing as aid workers that their children will be given well-paid, comfortable jobs.

The children are in fact being taken to a bag factory in Mumbai.



Last week 28 child labourers were rescued from a garment factory in the north-western city of Ludhiana where they were being paid around 150 ruprees (£1.50) a week to stich T-shirts.

“We have rescued 26 children from the clutches of human traffickers in the past 20 days and sent them to rehabilitation centres,” said Sanjeev Kumar, a senior labour official in Bihar’s East Champaran district.

“Following the Nepal disaster, the fear of children and women falling prey to the human trafficker gangs has increased manifold and so we are keeping a strict vigil along the Indo-Nepal border to prevent such happenings.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/child-victims-of-nepal-earthquake-sold-to-factories-and-brothels-by-human-traffickers-10276506.html


'Poorly protected' refugee children at risk of being preyed upon by paedophiles, warns German official

After a migrant boy was allegedly kidnapped from a refugee centre was killed, Germany’s federal commissioner for child sexual abuse warns it could happen again


A photo of Mohamed Januzi is displayed at a memorial site for the killed 4-year-old Bosnian migrant boy at the State Office of Health and Welfare LaGeSo in Berlin Photo: AP

Refugee children in Germany are at risk of being preyed upon by paedophiles due to a ‘scandalous’ lack of controls at asylum centres, warns a senior official following the killing of a migrant boy.

Days after a 32-year-old man confessed to sexually abusing and killing a four-year-old Bosnian boy he allegedly kidnapped from a refugee registration centre in Berlin, Germany’s federal commissioner for child sexual abuse issues has said that such a crime could be repeated at any time.

Johannes-Wilhelm Rörig warned that paedophiles could gain unhindered access to often-chaotic refugee centres. Overburdened authorities have been struggling to cope with the thousands of asylum seekers who have queued daily to be registered at centres such as the Berlin state office for health and social affairs, from where Mohammed Januzi was snatched last month while waiting with his mother and siblings.

http://world.einnews.com/article/294618573/hwaoZnIJjFUyDiCa


So many of these stories of children being forced into slavery, prostitution, child-marriage or abducted and murdered every day ... I hope films like this can somehow make a difference.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. k&r

[Art_from_Ark]

5. Damn

I just cannot understand man's inhumanity to man.
Or in this case, man's inhumanity to children.