OUR EXPERIENCE
Upon our examination and assessment of the sex trafficking industry during our trip through Latin America, we discovered certain themes, stories, and problems throughout. We had heard of a number of ministries focused on combating these issues prior to our assessment, but it wasn’t until after experiencing the face of the issue that we really understood exactly what these ministries were doing.
Also in our experience, we saw that there were many solutions already being executed in small doses by what we now know to be hundreds of local and regional ministries across the globe, wherever sex trafficking is evident. Sparked by personal experiences with the face of sex trafficking, and driven by passion to take their visible bite out of the massive beast, these ministries basically re-invent the wheel with every new commission, fund-raiser, and awareness rally while their unacquainted sister ministry does the same thing in the next city over.
OUR PURPOSE
So it became evident to us that another ministry is exactly what the fight doesn’t need. Rather unity, responsibility, and strategy are lacking to make these ministries as successful as their dreams would demand. It’s with these requirements that we feel led to step in. As filmmakers, we offer a unique contribution – the ability to share information. In our quest to ask questions and gain understanding of the many facets of the sex industry, ministries attempting to battle those facets, and problems that have yet to be treated even in the smallest degree, we can take every single viewer along with us, so that, by the end of the film, everybody is on the same page with an exhaustive view of what’s wrong, and how to make it right.
There are mission organizations like YWAM (Youth With A Mission) equipped to touch and speak to every human being in the world. With the right information (given by a documentary of ministries, churches, and sex industry workers) these mission organizations can then reach ministries, churches, and sex industry workers with a conceptually simple goal – unify everybody necessary to end sex trafficking.
This is as far as we, Volviendo, have come. A few of us have spoken with church leaders and even large congregations, expressing the urgency to act, and yet no action can take place until a full assessment and concept, portrayed on film, is completed.
And so we came back to our homes, our churches, and our friends, with inspirational face-to-face footage and a powerful statement that proceeds from the mouth of every person we’ve shared it with – “SOMETHING MUST BE DONE”. And so, in any given circle of people, any youth group, any Sunday brunch, we hear the names of influential leaders speaking against sexual exploitation, ministries opening their doors to exploited victims, and seminaries offering education to anyone with an ear – people stepping out in faith and praying that light will come to guide their path. Our fear is that it will not, and our prayer is that we are that light.
THE PLAN
We hope for this documentary to include interviews with ministry leaders focusing on every aspect of sex trafficking that needs to be combated. So after we’ve exposed the face of sex trafficking – the function of it – we will conclude a solution given by these ministry leaders, however extravagant and impossible the solution may be. It’s our conviction that such a solution isn’t as impossible as it seems. For example, perhaps a ministry to house rescued victims simply needs a curriculum to help these victims heal. And in another city, a book is written for the healing of those same victims. The only thing missing is knowledge of each other and mobilization to unite the two. These examples exist, and in some way, every wicked tactic and strategy of the sex industry is facing opposition from small, faithful servants of hope. It is our goal to unite, strengthen, strategize, and mobilize these servants into an army – a kingdom – of soldiers living and fighting to contradict the lust, brutality, and isolation of the sex industry with the Gospel message and life of Jesus Christ.
As filmmakers, we can only do so much, but the same applies to mission organizations, mercy ministries, churches, safe houses, and law enforcements around the world. But together, with a strategy, we are the army.
THE STRATEGY
When the documentary is completed, we plan to produce it in mass and send it, not directly to churches and ministries, but to YWAM. In YWAM, we will begin a 3-month school for young missionaries passionate about sex trafficking. This school will equip these missionaries in regards to every facet of sex trafficking known, every solution needed, and the commission to act instantly. In the next three months, these missionaries will scatter in groups of no more than 10 into cities across the world. In these cities, they will research churches and ministries, seeking to connect them all together and present the documentary as an introduction to the resolution of sex trafficking. For the following three months, these missionaries will establish the unity of existing ministries and churches, and note specific unfulfilled needs in each city. This process of school and mission, school and mission, will continue in YWAM for as long as necessary, returning even to the cities already visited, to strengthen the movement.
In reaction to that, international, national, regional, and local ministries will begin to be acquainted with each other; the churches will begin to be educated – acting out against sex trafficking in their own communities, serving the ministries, and preparing for a world-wide movement to strategically take sex slavery out at the knees.
THE FEATURE FILM
You say that it’s not that simple. Knowledge is power, yes, but what about money? In just the first few weeks, AVATAR grossed $1.6 billion in the box office. There is no doubt that film is the most popular media and one of the most financially stable industries in the world. It’s never been our intrinsic passion to make informative documentaries for distribution to churches and ministries. Our passion is for the masses. In fact, this entire project was driven by the desire to stop sex trafficking and the equal desire to express truth in art. With our extensive research and immersion into the Latin American sex trade, In Dependence Productions plan to make a feature film to be released in theaters across the western world, boldly portraying truth and creatively competing with the best films of our time. Usually, such blockbusters are blanketed with greedy intentions and monetary investments, but in Christ, all things are possible – even compassionate investors, willing filmmakers, talented actors, and passionate advertisers of a world-wide film devoted to grossing every possible dime, not for their own pockets, but for a movement to end sex slavery. With the most prominent media and popular entertainment in the world, our army of compassion, mercy, and love will destroy the wicked face of sex slavery forever.
-The Pursuers
P.S. Our trailer link is posted below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joyxeQO-r6g
