Title: Don't forget to visit APHA's 2nd Annual Film and Technology Theater

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Section/SPIG: Community Health Planning and Policy Development

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There are only 13 listings in the APHA Film and Technology Theater, and if one factors in the committments to presentations,and business meetings, the decision about which one to attend gets really easy.

I was interested to read the description of "Dying to Leave: Slaves of the Free Market" shown at the 7th Annual Unite Nations Association Film Festival in Fall 2004.

Description

Dying to Leave explores a shadow of globalization – the current worldwide boom in illicit human smuggling and human trafficking. Every year, an estimated three to four million people are shipped in containers, shepherded through sewage pipes, secreted in car chassis, and ferried across frigid waters. Others travel on legitimate carriers but with forged documents. An alarming number of these migrants end up in bondage, forced to work as prostitutes, thieves, or as labourers in sweatshops. Slaves of the Free Market looks at human trafficking, which includes a new kind of indentured servitude and the exploitation of women and children for the international sex trade. There is a story of Nina who is taken captive, sold from owner to owner and prostituted across Eastern Europe. Another migrant, Antonio, is taken from Mexico and trafficked in slavery on the tomato fields of Florida by a shady network of smugglers and labor contractors. Marcela leaves Colombia to go to Japan thinking she had a cleaning job, only to be enslaved for the sex industry by the Japanese Yakuza. Both directors/producers of the film, Chris Hilton and Aaron Wolff, have won awards.

Do visit at least one session from the APHA's 2nd Annual Film and Technology Theater.