My Dangerous Loverboy

The first UK-wide study of street grooming of children has found more than 2,000 victims of systematic abuse. Head of CEOP Peter Davies said many local agencies were failing to give victims the support they needed. Read more..

The ‘Love or Lies’ educational pack including the My Dangerous Loverboy film starring Juliet Aaltonen (Jade) and Junade Khan (Raz) was developed to help schools and other settings explore positive and negative relationships, peer pressure and sexual exploitation. Read more..

A culture of silence that has facilitated the sexual exploitation of hundreds of young British girls by criminal pimping gangs is exposed by The Times today (5th Jan 2011) Read more..

A gang of men from Derby has been convicted of systematically grooming and sexually abusing teenage girls. Read more..

In the Independent, Monday 29th November 2010, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown talks about the need for an honest national conversation about how exploitation in some places intersects with “culture, ethnicity and identity”. Read more..

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 [...] Read more..

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…! Read more..

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 [...] Read more..

My Dangerous Loverboy, a collaborative voluntary project between digital agency Quba and film-makers Virginia Heath and Grant Keir, uses social media websites such as Facebook and Youtube to raise awareness of a largely undetected crime. Having attracted over 500 fans on Facebook and taken the message into 25 schools in the city, the group could [...] Read more..

MDL has a new profile on DIVIANT ART. We want to use Art and Photography as another way to raise awareness of this horrific crime. Really interesting responce to the project! Our website was listed on the Must See List of the ‘End Human Trafficking’ group of Diviant Art – http://endhumantrafficking.deviantart.com/ Check out our page! [...] Read more..

The fact that five men are being charged with ‘trafficking persons within the UK for sexual exploitation’ is a really significant breakthrough in the recognition of ‘internal trafficking’, especially as those ‘persons’ are very young teenage girls.  The ‘My Dangerous Loverboy’ film and music video were commissioned by the UK Human Trafficking Centre to raise [...] Read more..

The ‘My Dangerous Loverboy’ (MDL) film was commissioned by the United Kingdom Human Trafficking Centre with the aim of raising awareness of the issue of internal sex trafficking of young people within the UK.  Since its completion, the film has been screened in the Home Office for the minister, Alan Campbell, and to the respective [...] Read more..

Exciting news, last week we launched phase one of the website, Facebook fan page, YouTube channel and Twitter account for the My Dangerous Loverboy campaign intended to raise awareness of the internal trafficking of vulnerable young girls in the UK into the sex trade. The centre point of the campaign is a 20 minute film called My [...] Read more..

Thriller series for web tv and mobile where teen ‘detective’ Amber investigates what happened to her missing friend and risks her life to expose a hidden crime. Read the full proposal here Read more..

Social networking site, bebo, has agreed to kick start our campaign with £50K worth of marketing support to encourage their audience to visit the MDL channel on bebo, thanks to Director of Digital Media, Dan’l Hewitt’s fantastic committment to our cause. Read more..

The My Dangerous Loverboy project won the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) Cross Media Challenge at Sheffield Doc/Fest November, 2007.  We used the NFB funding to develop this site and share their passion for developing innovative, socially engaged, cross platform projects. Read more..

We had a really interesting meeting today with several members of the Internal Trafficking Working Group. We screened the short film and the pop video for them in the Showroom Cinema and then outlined plans we have developed with UKHTC for the campaign going forward.  We showed the group the latest version of the Animation [...] Read more..

The day we met the Minister at UKHTC in Sheffield Read more..

2 very busy days at Sheffield DocFest Meetmarket Read more..

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. Read more..

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 Read more..

The girls, some as young as 12 years old, are lured into relationships by older boys and young men Read more..

‘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 Read more..

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 members Read more..

The Internal Trafficking of girls and young women into the sex industry is not just a problem that is confined to the UK. Read more..

Pop video of “Set Me Free” sung by My Dangerous Loverboy’s lead female actor Juliet Aaltonen Read more..

Paula LeDiey, Director of Digital BFI says, ”I wholeheartedly support this project and wish the MDL team every success in raising awareness of this shocking issue” Read more..

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. Read more..

In order to reach the target audience of teenage girls a variety of different media and events will be used Read more..

We want to use the power and immediacy of documentary film making to reveal the reality of internal trafficking. Read more..

Clip from US Director and Producer David Schisgall Read more..

BBC Crime reporter Ben Ando on the set in Sheffield Read more..

Excerpt from the film by Virginia Heath Read more..

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