My Dangerous Loverboy is a breakthrough campaign that will raise awareness of the internal trafficking of vulnerable young girls into the sex trade. Watch our My Dangerous Loverboy video, rate and comment to spread the word and raise awareness of the sex trafficking of young girls. You can help fight against this crime!
Clip from US Director and Producer David Schisgall
BBC Crime reporter Ben Ando on the set in Sheffield
Excerpt from the film by Virginia Heath
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Nine men have been convicted in connection with the sexual exploitation of a 14 year old girl who was was forced into prostitution and sexually abused after going missing from her home in Manchester.
Read the full story here.
It takes a huge amount of courage for a young girl to testify against her exploiters like this. [...]
Even though we didn’t win the cross platform award at the RTS awards on the 14th June, we still had a great time on the night! Check out our photostream on Flickr.
We sipped champagne, chatted with the competition and I even had a chance to chat with Harry Gration and Barry Cryer…!
As you may have heard, My Dangerous Loverboy was nominated for best cross platform award at last night’s RTS awards. Unfortunately didn’t win and the ceremony demonstrated a sad reflection on TV’s obsession with celebrity over anything with value and integrity. However, the nomination has been very useful in itself.
In order to vent our frustration [...]
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The girls, some as young as 12 years old, are lured into
relationships by older boys and young men
The Internal Trafficking of girls and young women into the sex industry is not just a problem that is confined to the UK.
In order to reach the target audience of teenage girls a variety of different media and events will be used
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Working with charity Barnardos, we tell the stories of girls who are recovering from traumatic experiences using animation. Stick figures that they draw become animations distributed through the web and as free mobile downloads.
Photography as a source of inspiration – we want to use the creative imagination of our audience to fight sex trafficking – designing posters, logos, badges, T shirts
‘Set Me Free’ is the theme song of the My Dangerous Loverboy film – we want to inspire our teenage audience to compose their own songs and music to fight sex trafficking
Bebo Director of Digital Content Danl Hewitt has committed £50,000 of marketing support to help kick start the campaign and raise awareness of our MDL channel on bebo to their 10 million members
Using the genre of a teen detective thriller, we plan to actively engage our target audience on the web and mobile through story lines dealing with issues like love, sex, betrayal, friendship and self esteem.
We want to use the power and immediacy of documentary film making to reveal the reality of internal trafficking.
