Title: Tricked First Run Features Director: Jane Wells and John-Keith Wasson Running time: 75 min, Unrated Special Features: 4 Bonus Scenes – The Swedish Model: Criminalizing Demand; Abolition & Prohibition: A Consensual Sex Worker Speaks Out; Tackling Sex Trafficking at Super Bowl Xlv; Prostitution Enforcement; Resources; Biographies Available February 3rd 20.9 million people are forced into the sex slave trade every year; it’s a 30 billion dollar industry. Mostly girls as young as 11 are beaten into submission and forced into prostitution; held captive against their will. This documentary follows vice agents on busts, former sex slaves and prostitutes, the victims parents, pimps and their closest hoes. I thought that [ Read More ]
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- 2/11/2015
- by juliana
- ShockYa
Title: Tricked Directors: John-Keith Wasson, Jane Wells Documentary “Tricked” is a tricky offering. A nonfiction look at sex trafficking in the United States, co-directors John-Keith Wasson and Jane Wells’ film packs a sobering punch rooted largely in the squirmy, innate sympathies its subject matter induces. But at just over 70 minutes, and with a focus that is more anecdotal than comprehensive or scrupulously assembled, the movie comes off as basically on par with any given television newsmagazine story on the same topic. “Tricked” is an initiative of 3 Generations, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping survivors of terrible atrocities tell their stories, and thus advocate for positive social change through [ Read More ]
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- 12/17/2013
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
This frank documentary on some of the more shudder-provoking aspects of the sex trade wraps with footage of President Obama citing "the injustice, the outrage of human trafficking, which must be called by its true name — modern slavery."
And that's pretty much the angle that filmmakers Jane Wells and John-Keith Wasson are driving home, vis-à-vis prostitution and its surrounding myths. They're successful in confirming the just-how-muchness of what we already suspected: that most young women in the trade are trapped there under threat of violence, rather than by choice.
What's truly hair-raising, and effectively presented, is that many of the girls that Wells and Wasson profile are young — like really young, like embryonically young — 12-year-old...
And that's pretty much the angle that filmmakers Jane Wells and John-Keith Wasson are driving home, vis-à-vis prostitution and its surrounding myths. They're successful in confirming the just-how-muchness of what we already suspected: that most young women in the trade are trapped there under threat of violence, rather than by choice.
What's truly hair-raising, and effectively presented, is that many of the girls that Wells and Wasson profile are young — like really young, like embryonically young — 12-year-old...
- 12/10/2013
- Village Voice
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