The film described above was funded last year through Kickstarter and should be released this year (2012). Here's the description from the Kickstarter page:
Nicaragua is the least developed country in Central America and the second poorest country in North, Central, and South America. With little to no education or skills, women who are abandoned by their husbands or widowed are forced into prostitution as the only means for supporting themselves and their children. Additionally, girls 5 years old and younger are routinely sold to brothels and forced to sexually service men.
There is a never-ending list of girls and women that are routinely raped and abused, with no apparent way out of this life.
Watch our overview video to hear just a few of these horrible stories.
In Chains is a documentary project that will show the reality of life for these victims. The startling truth that exists right now, that as you read this girls as young as 7 are being rented to men and raped. Women, seeing no other option, are selling themselves in order to support their family, even as their children look on.
Sex trafficking exists all over the world, in every city. However, in Nicaragua, one of the poorest countries in the world, something amazing is also happening. In the capital city of Managua an organization called "House of Hope" is successfully rescuing women and children from prostitution. In the middle of absolute desperation, people are reaching into the darkness and saving the lost and the hopeless.
Our goal with this project is to paint a picture of the reality of these women and children, with the hope that it will inspire and empower others to do what House of Hope is doing: helping to solve the sex trafficking issue.
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