Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 17, 2014

Not My Life is a 2011 American independent documentary film about human trafficking and contemporary slavery. The film was written, produced, and directed by Robert Bilheimer (pictured in Senegal during filming), who had been asked to make the film by Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Not My Life addresses many forms of slavery, including the military use of children in Uganda, involuntary servitude in the United States, forced begging and garbage picking in India, sex trafficking in Europe and Southeast Asia, and other kinds of child abuse. Fifty people are interviewed in the film, including Don Brewster of Agape International Missions, who says that all of the girls they have rescued from child sex tourism in Cambodia identify Americans as the clients who were the most abusive to them. The film was dedicated to Richard Young, its cinematographer and co-director, after he died in December 2010. It had its premiere the following month at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. Not My Life was named Best World Documentary at the 2012 Harlem International Film Festival. (Full article...)