Make a Film 'In My Sister's Shoes'.
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My name is Tracey Heers. I spent 2013 living in Thailand writing for Destiny Rescue, an organisation that exists to rescue children from the sex trade. Now I want to go back to make a short film to create awareness of this global atrocity. I want to tell this story. It must be told. I want to be a voice for those kids - they don't have one of their own. I need you to help me.
The Issue
Child sex tourism is a lucrative market: paedophiles travel to poorer countries so they can hurt and exploit and irrevocably harm. And then they go back home to their affluent lives.
They leave behind a swathe of impossibly damaged children... like road kill scattered in the wake of a speeding semi.
Our Response
What do we do with these facts? How do our lives and our hearts respond?
Do we put up barriers around our feeling selves; barricades to protect us from the pain and terror and horror of this reality?
Or do we do what we can – speak up, speak out, donate, write, speak, lobby governments about sex tourism, stay awake at night troubling over what we can do?
About the Film
The film will be entirely shot of feet - the feet of children in impoverished hill tribe villages; the feet of the parents who sell them or are tricked into ; the feet of pimps and traffickers; and the feet of the beautiful young bar girls and the foreign men who travel to exploit them - thus the name 'In My Sister's Shoes'. This angle will protect the privacy of the children caught in this horrific industry and yet powerfully tell their story.
These kids need someoone to be their voice. With your help I can be that someone.
What You Receive
To acknowledge your contribution you receive...
All donations - Name in credits at the end of film
$25+ - Special invitation and free single ticket to film premiere
$50+- Special invitation and free double ticket to film premiere
$100+ - Red carpet entrance + VIP seat at the film premiere
Businesses $100+ - Logo on thanks page at the end of film.
Solidarity for our Sisters
And I want to shoot footage of the feet of as many of you as possible... this footage will be screened behind the credits at the end of the film... to show solidarity, to show there are many who are not prepared to let this issue go unnoticed, this story go untold, these children go unheard.
With humble thanks.
The Issue
Child sex tourism is a lucrative market: paedophiles travel to poorer countries so they can hurt and exploit and irrevocably harm. And then they go back home to their affluent lives.
They leave behind a swathe of impossibly damaged children... like road kill scattered in the wake of a speeding semi.
Our Response
What do we do with these facts? How do our lives and our hearts respond?
Do we put up barriers around our feeling selves; barricades to protect us from the pain and terror and horror of this reality?
Or do we do what we can – speak up, speak out, donate, write, speak, lobby governments about sex tourism, stay awake at night troubling over what we can do?
About the Film
The film will be entirely shot of feet - the feet of children in impoverished hill tribe villages; the feet of the parents who sell them or are tricked into ; the feet of pimps and traffickers; and the feet of the beautiful young bar girls and the foreign men who travel to exploit them - thus the name 'In My Sister's Shoes'. This angle will protect the privacy of the children caught in this horrific industry and yet powerfully tell their story.
These kids need someoone to be their voice. With your help I can be that someone.
What You Receive
To acknowledge your contribution you receive...
All donations - Name in credits at the end of film
$25+ - Special invitation and free single ticket to film premiere
$50+- Special invitation and free double ticket to film premiere
$100+ - Red carpet entrance + VIP seat at the film premiere
Businesses $100+ - Logo on thanks page at the end of film.
Solidarity for our Sisters
And I want to shoot footage of the feet of as many of you as possible... this footage will be screened behind the credits at the end of the film... to show solidarity, to show there are many who are not prepared to let this issue go unnoticed, this story go untold, these children go unheard.
With humble thanks.
Organizer
Tracey Heers
Organizer
Landsborough QLD
