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THE LARGEST EVER

GLOBAL MEDIA

CAMPAIGN ON

MODERN SLAVERY

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Why are

40 million

people

currently

living

as slaves?

In 2018 THE WHY will launch the media initiative WHY SLAVERY? to

vastly increase awareness about human traficking and modern slavery.

Using the power of strong storytelling as the foundation of the campaign,

six compelling and informative documentary ilms will uncover the

lives of men, women and children living as slaves in all corners of the

world. Whether it is the deeply lawed Kafala System in the Middle East

or the proliic number of children bought and sold in India, the WHY

SLAVERY? series will shine a light on the millions of lives lived in the

shadows of enslavement.

Along with the 6 documentaries WHY SLAVERY? will also include

30 short ilms, educational platforms and outreach activities globally

distributed across 191 countries through a unique network of 70+

broadcasters and other project partners. We can reach upwards of 600

million people.

At THE WHY foundation we believe that civic education and free access

to reliable media is the irst critical step in addressing social issues

and inspiring change. We follow in the footsteps of WIlliam Wilberforce

who once said “You may choose to look the other way, but you can

never say again that you did not know.” In this spirit, WHY SLAVERY?

works to ensure that all people across the globe know that millions of

people are still enslaved, stripped of their fundamental human rights

and unable to escape.

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DOCUMENTARIES /

SHORTFILMS /

70+

BROADCASTERS /

191

COUNTRIES /

600 MILLION

VIEWERS /

SPRING

2018

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Documentaries

Selling Children

Maid in Hell

Is poverty raising a generation of children for sale?

In the world’s largest democracy, India, millions of vulnerable children are

bought and sold, given only what they need to survive another day. Through-

out Indian society the mechanisms of bonded slave labor are insidious, pow-

erful and nearly impossible to escape for children who have become trapped

in a system driven by proits. Our Indian director looks behind the overwhelm-

ing statistics - revealing how the lack of education and persistent poverty

provides a breeding ground for modern slavery.

In this ilm we follow the lives of children who have been denied a childhood

and an education to be sold to work in mica mines, to pick tea leaves at

plantations, to work as domestic helpers and even sold as brides when they

are just young girls. Their story, traces back to their families, exposes how

perilous circumstances and a deep lack of knowledge about the meaning of

slavery results in the selling of children.

Can an employment system hide a reality of torture and humiliation?

35 year old Mary Kibwana is just one of thousands of women who lived

through hell working as a domestic helper in Jordan. She is a mother of four

and was lucky to return to her home in Kenya. She arrived in a wheel-chair

with 70 percent of her body burned. Two months later she died. Harass-

ment, abuse, rape and 18-hour work days are a commonplace reality for

domestic helpers who have travelled to the Middle East to ind employ-ment.

Trapped in the Kafala system, their passports are coniscated and they are

bound to their employer. Unable to lee, they risk harsh punish-ments or

imprisonments if they try.

‘Maid In Hell’ gives unprecedented access to this frightening and brutal

form of modern slavery. Following employment agents who vividly describe

the trade, as well as maids who struggle to ind a way home after harrowing,

and sometimes, deadly experiences, we come to understand the grotesque

reality faced by thousands of women each day.

DIRECTORS /

ANONYMOUS DURING PRODUCTION

PRODUCER /

ANONYMOUS DURING PRODUCTION

DIRECTORS /

ANONYMOUS DURING PRODUCTION

PRODUCER /

METTE HOFFMAN MEYER

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Documentaries

US Prison Slaves

Dollar Heroes

How do prisons proit from crime?

In the last 30 years, America’s prison population has surged from 330,000

to 2.3 million inmates. In this deeply personal and provocative ilm, Acad-

emy Award-winning director Roger Ross Williams sets out on a mission to

investigate the prison system that has helped drive this explosive web of

political, social, and economic forces that have consumed so many of Rog-

er’s friends and family.

In his search for answers, Roger decides to go behind the scenes of Amer-

ica’s $80 billion dollar a year prison industrial complex. As he explores the

network of companies who are involved in this business he uncovers a dis-

turbing pattern of greed and corruption, as well as enormous inancial in-

centives to keep inmate population high, and sentences long.

How does North Korea sell their own people to fund its dangerous regime?

Shrouded in secrecy and notoriously cash-strapped the North Korean re-

gime has resorted to running one of the world’s largest slaving operations -

exploiting the proits to fulill their own agenda. These bonded laborers can

be found in Russia, China and dozens of other countries around the world

- including EU member states. Featuring undercover footage and powerful

testimonials ‘Dollar Heroes’ reveals the scale and brutality of the operation.

With the promise of payment and honor, thousands of North Koreans are be-

ing sent abroad, only to ind themselves under constant surveillance, work-

ing 12 hour days, in harsh conditions for wages that are transferred directly

to the regime.

‘Dollar Heroes’ exposes the inner workings of the system and how compa-

nies and governments, bound by law to protect their employees, are com-

plicit in the trade of human beings. The ilm asks how this method of opera-

tion is legal, and what - if anything - is being done to stop it.

DIRECTORS /

ANONYMOUS DURING PRODUCTION

PRODUCER /

ANONYMOUS DURING PRODUCTION

DIRECTORS /

ROGER ROSS WILLIAMS (US)

PRODUCER /

FEMKE WOLTING (NL)

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Documentaries

Yazidi Sex Slaves

I Was a Slave

Can there be justice after genocide, sexual violence and slavery?

In August 2014 an Islamic State massacre of unimaginable proportions took

place during the rapid invasion of the Yazidi people in Sinjar, northern Iraq.

Young Yazidi women were separated from the old and taken to the Galaxy

Cinema in Mosul. There they were paraded, selected, enslaved, tortured

and systematically raped. Some were only 11 years old.

In this ilm international lawyer Philippe Sands travels to Kurdish-Yazidi refu-

gee camps in Dohuk and interviews escaped victims of IS on how they live

in the aftermath of genocidal violence. Back in Europe Sands then encoun-

ters the son of Yazidi Kurdish immigrants Dr. Jan Kizilhan, a world-renowned

trauma expert. Together they work to bring 1000 women and girls for treat-

ment at Kizilhan’s clinic in Schwarzwald, Germany. We follow the Yazidi

women’s journey to recovery and ask how a survivor of unthinkable sexual

violence can ind justice and a path to rehabilitation. This is their story.

How do we stop slavery today?

Many of the victims of human traficking and slavery are too ashamed or too

scared to show their faces. In this ilm viewers are given intimate access to

the real human stories behind the overwhelming statistics - witnessing the

testimonies of the men and women that have both endured and survived the

ultimate form of dehumanization as modern slaves.

For many survivors the tiniest details of their journey take on the most pro-

found relevance. The deeply emotive and heartbreaking experiences that

are spoken of in “I Was a Slave” reveals the survival mechanisms people

used to endure and maintain their sanity – the imaginary conversations they

had with friends and parents, the handful of objects that became dear to

them, the memories they held on to at the darkest of times, and their com-

plex relationship with their captors. We listen as survivors tell their own story,

inally seen and heard.

DIRECTORS /

DAVID EVANS & PHILIPPE SANDS (UK, DE)

PRODUCER /

NICOLAS KENT (UK)

DIRECTORS /

RENEGADE PICTURES

PRODUCER /

RENEGADE PICTURES

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Editorial partners

NICK FRASER

Co-founder &

Executive producer,

THE WHY

METTE HOFFMANN MEYER

Co-founder &

Executive producer,

THE WHY

AXEL ARNÖ

Commissioning Editor,

SVT

SANDRA KLEINFELD

Senior Director of

Documentary,

CBC Television

KLARA GRUNNING

Consultant,

Swedish Film Institute

& Chair, The WHY

KIM CHRISTIANSEN

Editor of Documentaries

and Co-productions,

DR Sales

MANDY CHANG

Commissioning editor,

Storyville BBC

ALAN HAYLING

& ALEX COOKE

Editorial Director / CEO,

Renegade Pictures

MARIZA MATSHAYA

Producer & Founder, Queen

Film

MARGJE DE KONING

Chief Commissioning Editor of

Documentaries,

EO, JDocs & IKONdocs

KATE KENNEDY

Managing Director,

North America,

The Freedom Fund

MARTIN PIEPER

Head of Department -

ARTE-Thema,

ZDF/ARTE

GUDRUN HANKE-EL GHOMRI

Commissioning Editor,

ARD/SWR

SUSANNE MERTENS

Commissioning Editor,

ZDF/ARTE

MARIE NELSON

Vice President News &

Independent Film,

PBS

YOKO IMAI

Senior Producer for International

Co-production and Acquisitions,

NHK

ANDERS BRUUS

Commisioning Editor,

Educational partners

HELEN YANACOPULOS

Senior Lecturer in International Politics

and Development,

Open University

AVI BOUKLI

Lecturer in Criminology,

Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences,

Open University

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About

THE WHY

THE WHY initiates, produces and distributes public media initiatives to

a wide global audience to ensure that all people have free access to

independent and fact-based information. THE WHY uses high quality

factual ilms as the basis for our work. Good documentaries contribute to

relection, broaden people’s horizon, and enhance empathy, tolerance

and solidarity. Making documentary ilms available to everyone is

therefore an important social investment, that inspires fundamental

democratic values. Through partnerships with broadcasters worldwide,

NGOs and cultural & public institutions THE WHY reaches out to people

from all walks of life to increase their awareness and understanding of

the world we live in.

In 2007 we launched Academy Award-winning WHY DEMOCRACY?

followed by Peabody Award-winning WHY POVERTY? (2012), that

reached respectively 250 million and 500 million people worldwide in

collaboration with 32 and 69 broadcasters. Both projects took a wide-

ranging and in-depth look at the world we live in and consisted of

documentaries, short ilms and extensive outreach activities.

In 2015 THE WHY introduced WORLD STORIES, a series of 20

documentaries per year distributed to more than 191 countries

worldwide reaching more than 100 million people every year. Recently

we launched WHY WOMEN? (2016) in Denmark featuring Academy

Award-winning actress Dame Helen Mirren, to bring awareness to girls

and women’s rights, health and wellbeing.

In 2018 THE WHY will launch WHY SLAVERY?, estimated to reach

600 million people through 70+ broadcasters.

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