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Children account for half of the victims of human trafficking. The average age that a young person becomes involved in sex trafficking...13 years old.
PLAYGROUND: The Child Sex Trade in America was one of the first feature-length documentary films to comprehensively examine the rising and insidious trends of child sex trafficking in America and has reached audiences around the world. The film’s social action campaign yielded Nest, an organization dedicated to ending all forms of child sexual exploitation and trafficking, which continues to use PLAYGROUND to sound alarms bells about child sexual exploitation and trafficking in North America.
Tackling a topic you can't film, victims you don't want to identify and a subject from which most audiences naturally recoil in horror, helmer Libby Spears works certain wonders with "Playground," a state-of-the-union address on the sexual exploitation of American children.
The film...masterfully illustrates both the wide-spread reach of this crime and the urgent need for action. In doing so, PLAYGROUND has provided critical momentum to the effort to pass my federal legislation to help victims escape sex trafficking and to prosecute those who brutally exploit these young victims.
Senator Ron Wyden
Oregon
The simple act of viewing this film sowed some very important seeds within me – that the abuse I endured was not my fault, that I was not alone in my experiences, and that my feelings of hopelessness and doom were unrealistic. 'PLAYGROUND' resonated deep within me and showed me that there was hope – that I could turn my life around.
Laura
Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation Survivor
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