Address Human Trafficking with ‘Angie: Lost Girls’
This powerful film uses the fictional account of one teenage girl’s nightmare to address a national reality that is on the rise. Read on to learn more about this gripping film and the national awareness initiatives in place to help spread understanding and prevention around this global issue.
Each year, millions of men, women and children are trafficked worldwide – including here in the United States. According to the Department of Homeland Security, human trafficking can happen “in any community and victims can be any age, race, gender or nationality.” To help raise the public’s understanding and alertness around this terrible reality, there are a number of awareness initiatives in place: National Human Trafficking Awareness Day on January 11 and National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month all of January.
You can spotlight this global issue on your campus this January using a poignant new release: “Angie: Lost Girls.” The film, one of the first to tackle the issue head on, shares the fictional account of one teenage girl’s struggles to get back to her “normal” life after escaping from a sex trafficking ring. Ultimately, in order to find peace, she decides to rescue the other girls still imprisoned by her traffickers.
Julia Verdin, the film’s director, shared the film was “made out of love and a desire to take action after volunteering at a children’s shelter and hearing the heartbreaking stories of 14-15 year-old-girls who had been trafficked.” To help write the script, Verdin consulted with the former head of the child trafficking unit in L.A, as well as doing in-depth research and talking to many NGO’s and survivors.
The film stars Olivia D’Abo, Dylan Sprayberry, Anthony Montgomery, Randall Batinkoff, Amin Joseph and MC Lyte as well as some great up and coming young actors.
“Angie: Lost Girls” is available now for licensing through Swank.