InterviewTNM caught up with filmmaker Miriam Chandy to talk about her documentary on survivors of child sex trafficking ‘From the Shadows’, the risks involved, the influences on her work, and more.Film still/Courtesy: Miriam ChandyIn the week after a film festival organised on the theme of gender justice in Chennai, Tnm caught up with one of the participants, Miriam Chandy Menacherry,who directed the grim documentary From the Shadows. Miriam’s film is about the survivors of a powerful criminal racket that trafficks minor girls for sex work. In the film, Miriam takes you through the grim statistics of sex trafficking, the dreadful ways in which children as young as seven years are ‘sold’ and abused, the work of organisations such as Impulse Ngo Network, the labyrinth of legal battles for repatriation, and the painstaking effort that girls who finally manage to get away are forced to put in to rebuild their lives.
- 5/4/2023
- by BharathyS
- The News Minute
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