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UNTOUCHABLE: Children of God – Coming to a theater near you!

Untouchable: Children of God

In the brothels of India, young girls perish every day. At least 10,000 girls are trafficked from Nepal to the brothels of India each year. A mere 1% of these sex slaves ever escape or get rescued. UNTOUCHABLE: CHILDREN OF GOD, explores the stories of the people most vulnerable to human trafficking, the “Untouchables” of society, specifically the Badi people of Nepal and the Dalits of India.

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I am SO excited to announce that the documentary film I’ve been working on over the last 2 years is finally available in theaters!!!!  Code Red Films has partnered with Tugg, Inc. to allow people across America the opportunity to experience this powerful and timely documentary film.  Screenings have already been scheduled in Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, Ohio and Boston – and more will be planned throughout the year!  Click here to find or even schedule your own screening in a theater near you!

Krista Photography will host the Boston screening on Thursday, February 5th at 7:30pm at Kendall Square Cinema in Cambridge.  The theaters require a minimum number of tickets to be sold in advance in order to proceed with the screening, so we need to sell 112 tickets by THIS SUNDAY 1/25.  Please buy your ticket NOW and join us for the Boston Premiere of the film, followed by a brief Q&A!

I will also be attending  screenings in Houston, TX on February 24th, and in Austin, TX on February 25th – so I hope some of our Texas friends can come!

 

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UNTOUCHABLE: Children of God – Documentary Film Premiere

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Those of you who have been following our blog for a while probably know that I’ve been working on a documentary film by Code Red Films called UNTOUCHABLE: Children of God.  The whole process has been incredible – intensely challenging, highly emotional, but so unbelievably wonderful.

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 I’ve met some of the strongest, bravest young women – more resilient than I could have ever imagined.  Their faith in God, and their faith in us has been humbling.  They have shared their stories with us and entrusted us to share them with the world, and that is no small thing.  I have grown to love them so very much and I WISH I could share their photos with you!  For their safety, I’ve opted to keep them offline and you’ll have to view the film to see their beautiful faces.

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When can you see the film?  Well!  I’m glad you asked!!  The US premiere is coming up in just a few days!!  UNTOUCHABLE: Children of God will premiere at the Newport Beach Film Festival on Wednesday, April 30 at 7:45pm PDT.  I’m excited to go out for the premiere and actually see the latest edit on the BIG SCREEN!  It’s going to be so cool!  Those of you who live in the area – please join us for the premiere!!!  Tickets are on sale now!

For those of you who don’t live in sunny California, don’t worry!  We are working on planning some screening opportunities in major cities across the US for later this year!  I’ll be sure to keep you posted, but you can follow the film on Facebook to get the latest updates.


This film has been such a blessing to me – I can’t wait to share it with all of you!!  See you in Newport Beach next week!!!

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UNTOUCHABLE: Children of God

As many of you know, I’ve been working with an organization called Code Red Films on a film called UNTOUCHABLE: Children of God, about the sexual exploitation of the lowest caste girls of Nepal and India.  In the last year, our team has travelled to Nepal and India twice to gather footage.  We have seen terrible things, and heard stories that have brought us to tears.  We have met girls and young women who have experienced more suffering than any person should ever know.  We have met those who the caste system deems “untouchable”, yet who have been touched in terrible, violent ways.  We have seen the horror that is sex slavery, and we are determined to help bring an end to it.  We have looked into the eyes of some of few who have survived and escaped, and we have seen healing, we have seen HOPE.  We long to see more girls and women set free.  We long to see fewer girls cross the border into India and disappear forever.  We long to see brothels shut down, traffickers imprisoned, and victims given the chance at a new life.  We long to see the end of sex trafficking in Nepal and India forever.  And we need your help!

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FILM PROGRESS 

  • We’ve taken hundreds of hours of interviews & footage, and I’ve shot more than 15,000 photographs over the course the two trips.
  • Code Red has launched both a new Website and a new Facebook Page where we’ll be posting helpful links, production stills, photographs, and updates on our progress.
  • Code Red Films has begun the process of becoming an official 501c3 non-profit
  • On August 12, 2012 we launched an Indiegogo fundraising campaign to raise the remaining $50,000 needed to complete post-production on the film.  We have just SEVEN DAYS left to do it!

 

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THIS IS WHERE YOU COME IN

  I am writing to ask for your support!  We cannot do this alone, and we don’t want to.  The only way these girls will be free is if an entire movement of men and women rise up from all over the world to help them!  Our part of the mission is to raise the call, and to speak the truth and let their stories be heard.  Please give our voice the wings it needs to soar by taking ACTION:

  • Visit our Website, watch the trailer, and meet our team
  • Like our Facebook Page and invite your friends to like it too
  • Donate to our fundraising campaign – any amount will help and there’s no time to lose!
  • SHARE our story and our fundraising page with your friends and family – help spread the word!

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Thank you!

If you have any questions about the project, or my work, or about sex trafficking, or anything – please let me know!  Thank you so much for your support!  I am so blessed to be able to be a part of this project – and I literally could not do it without all of you and your support!!  THANK YOU!


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My 30 Favs

In my mentoring sessions with Davina Fear, which were awesome by the way, we decided that it’s time for me to remake my website. Such a pity, since I never was able to get this one finished – but I think it’s time! My work and my goals have changed a lot over time, and I think that’s why I wasn’t able to get down to really making it happen. To help me with this whole process, Davina gave me an overwhelming homework assignment: choose my 30 favorite images of ALL TIME and choose one word to describe each image!! EEEK! I’m a bit indecisive when it comes to picking favorites (I don’t have a favorite movie, favorite song, or anything like that). But, I did it! So, I thought I’d share them with you!! And this time, I’m going to let them speak for themselves.


(the photo above was taken as an Associate for Real Life Weddings)



(the photo above was taken as an Associate for Grazier Photography)

























What I think is really cool is that of these photos 2 were taken in 2003, 1 in 2004, 3 in 2005, 3 in 2006, and 15 were taken in 2007! I mean, I knew that I’d grown a lot as a photographer in the last year, but that was really cool to see!

So, I won’t share my words with you – but I’d love to hear what YOUR favorites are, and what words come to your mind when you look at these photographs! Leave me a comment below and let me know what you think.

And be on the lookout – a new website is in the works…. yay!!!