Copper Coin Productions

A FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY

Synopsis
This 90-minute documentary will explore the supply and demand of human trafficking for sexual slavery and exploitation as it pertains to the United States. The film will focus on three core issues: domestic trafficking of American citizens, trafficking of foreign citizens into the US and international sex tourism executed by American citizens.  Through these three focal points we will observe American’s participation in the proliferation of global human trafficking.

Introduction
How valuable is your life? What price tag would you put on your daughter?  The average price for a woman sold into slavery is $2,500, yet once sold she can generate up to $30,000 per week for her oppressors. Many women are forced to provide sex for up to 20 buyers per day, 7 days a week.

Human sexual trafficking and exploitation in the United Sates is a mostly invisible problem. Most U.S. citizens are unaware of atrocities that are taking place in their own hometowns. The U.S. government estimates that 20,000 persons are trafficked into the United States annually. This number does not include U.S. citizens that are trafficked within the country many of whom are children. According to the U.S. Department of Justice 2,100 children are reported missing every day in the US.

“Our Problem” will follow the trail of sex trafficking in and outside the United State to uncover a supply chain that uses increasingly inhuman methods to feed a demand that can only be provided through the enslavement of women and children. At the same time we focus on the ever-growing demand inside the United States that perpetuates this inhuman treatment and entrapment of women and children.

While other films have explored the global issues of trafficking in India and South East Asia none have examined the trafficking that is going on inside our own country. This June the U.S. government will release its annual TIP (Trafficking in Persons) report as well as an independent report investigating legalized prostitution in Nevada and its implications on the volume of trafficking victims. Using Las Vegas, Los Angeles and New York as a microcosm for trafficking we will interweave our three core issues: domestic trafficking, international trafficking and international sex tourism, to analyze the complexity of human trafficking and its negative effects pertaining to the United States.

PROJECTED TIMELINE:
Completion Summer 2007