Not My Life is a 2011 American independent documentary film about human trafficking and contemporary slavery. The focus of the film is on trafficking victims, especially women and children. The narration was completely rerecorded in 2011, replacing Ashley Judd’s voice with that of Glenn Close. It has been called “a cautionary tale” and “a film of good and evil”
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Not My Life is a 2011 American independent documentary film about human trafficking and contemporary slavery. The focus of the film is on trafficking victims, especially women and children, the latter of whom are often betrayed by adults that they trust. Not My Life calls attention to the fact that, in the United States, the sentencing for human trafficking is less severe than for drug trafficking. It depicts the commodification of millions of people and identifies the practices of traffickers as undermining international economics, security, sustainability and health. The narration was completely rerecorded in 2011, replacing Ashley Judd’s voice with that of Glenn Close. Not my Life was named Best World Documentary at the Harlem International Film Festival in September 2012. In 2014, a re-edited version of the movie was released. The film was dedicated to Richard Young, its cinematographer and co-director, after he died in December 2010. It had its premiere the following month at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. It has been called “a cautionary tale” and “a film of good and evil” The film asserts that most victims of human trafficking are children, although the filmmakers have recognized the fact that millions of adults are also trafficked. The filmmakers have also recognized that human trafficking as a matter of good governance is a problem that needs to be addressed in all parts of the world, not just in the U.S. and Europe. The director encourages viewers, Robert Bilheimer, to personally combat human trafficking to combat the problem in his own life.
He was sparing in his use of statistics in the film, feeling that overloading viewers with figures might numb them to the issues. The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime said that many people deny the reality of contemporary slavery because it is an uncomfortable truth, saying, “No, this is not my life.\’ The film indicates a relationship between contemporary slavery and globalization, It asserts that Most victims are children and asserts that the film depicts the good and good survivors of human Trafficking, as well as the bad and evil survivors of trafficking. The first and last scenes take place in Ghana, and show children who are forced to fish in Lake Volta for 14 hours a day. Don Brewster of Agape International Missions says that all of the girls they have rescued from child sex tourism in Cambodia identify Americans as the clients who were the most abusive to them. The film also focuses on the people and organizations engaged in working against human trafficking, including members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Free the Slaves, Girls Educational and Mentoring Services, International Justice Mission, the Somaly Mam Foundation, Terre des hommes, Tostan, UNICEF, United Nations Office on drugs and Crime, and the U States Department of State. It addresses many forms of slavery, including the military use of children in Uganda, forced begging and garbage picking in India, sex trafficking in Europe and Southeast Asia, and other kinds of child abuse.
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