Miditech’s Undercover Asia: Girls for Sale has won a bronze world medal at the New York Festivals World’s Best Film & TV Awards in the Social Issues category.
Undercover Asia: Girls for Sale talks about anti-trafficking activist Rishi Kant’s search for two minor girls, who have been abducted.
“This is one of India’s dirty secrets (as reported in the Verma Commission Report). We wanted to tell this story in a way that it gets under you skin and so decided to meet anguished parents whose daughters have gone missing,” Pria Somiah, executive producer of the film said in a statement.
She feels the problem is rampant and needs to be addressed seriously.
Girls for Sale also explores the brothels, placement agencies and homes to see the horrors that these young girls were subjected to, Radhika Chandrasekhar, the director of the documentary, said, “Making this film was a harsh reality check for the entire crew. We lived through the agonies of each of the children — the sexual abuse most went through, the rescue and escape attempts, the rebuilding of a life.”
