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 JOURNEY
INTO SEX SLAVERY
(Bocca della Verità)
Italy, documentary short, 2001-2007; 7.5 min
Director/Producer: Luigia Martelloni
Synopsis
Shot over a period of several years, the film is a personal
account of “Karen”, young Romanian woman who was kidnapped
and sold into sex slavery. She tells of her kidnapping
in Romania, her travels through Albania and eventually into Italy. It
was at the hands
of Albanian pimps, with the help of bribed police in
several countries that she eventually landed in the prostitution ring
in Rome. Debora
di Cave, a social worker whose job is to get girls like "Karen" off
the streets, details the nature of the sex market and
its brutality for girls from Romania, East European countries, the former
U.S.S.R.,
and Nigeria. Graphic footage, combined with candid interviews,
illustrate the brutality of life on the streets for these girls.
Director
Luigia Martelloni
Visual artist, art director, filmmaker, and photographer, Luigia
Martelloni grew up in Rome, where she graduated from the Accademia
di Belle Arti. She works in production design, concept work,
and research for film, TV, and theater. She worked on the Godfather
III with Francis Ford Coppola and Dean Tavoularis, collaborated
with Italian film director Luigi Comencini, and worked on opera
productions such as La Bohème at the famed La Fenice Theater
in Venice and L’Ernani at the Regio Theatre in Parma. After
moving to Los Angeles in 1993 she continued working as visual
artist, photographer, art educator and filmmaker. She recently
completed documentary film “Not Just A House” about
the partnership between Habitat For Humanity and The Canyon Charter
Elementary School in Santa Monica to build a home for a struggling
Florida family made homeless after Hurricane Wilma.
Filmography
Not just a house, documentary, 2007
Journey into sex slavery, documentary, 2007(II)
Sounds of innocence, video artwork, 2001
This is tap, documentary, 1999
A film on life, a life on film, documentary, 1993
DVD Source:
Luigia Martelloni
http://www.luigiamartelloni.com
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