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Hi I'm directed to pray recording from the
Bay Area video coalition where for the

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past three years the producers Institute
has brought together documentary

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filmmakers and interactive media people
from all over the country one and tens ten

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days to develop new media concepts for
their films Joining me now here at that

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they've accepted live studio cello Alvarez
stilly producer director off sands of

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Silence A Personal Journey into the
trafficking of women she was invited to Bay

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Back to develop the game and so as slaves
accompanying the film which is in the

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early stages of production cello you have
one of the main characters of the film

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identified as I understand

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a Mexican American woman who was forced
into prostitution she was kidnapped by

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a trafficking ring and taken to

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a place in chop us they were bringing
other women with breast feeding in each

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babies and was the good to displays the
traffickers would force them to exchange

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the babies among them sort of so that
they couldn't escape when our character

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succeeded in escaping because she tried
three times she had to leave her baby

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behind and then come back and
recover her baby and pay

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a huge ransom for the baby because she was
told that it had been sold already and

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you investigated sex trafficking for years
even before this film what have you

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found is the motivation for the traffickers
to be in this horrific business Yeah I

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think you spot and obviously
money sex trafficking is

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a huge business and increasingly become you
know one of the best businesses in the

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planet better than even drug trafficking
or weapons traffic him because

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a woman you can reuse it

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a drug you consume it is gone that woman
your country use it and resale it and

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that's what happens until the point where
they become sick and many of them do now

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you told me that earlier
conversation there's

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a huge demand for women in Western European
countries like your own Spain or or

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Germany where I'm from. Mostly from the
Eastern European countries how is the

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trafficking different from girls coming
into the United States those gallstones to

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be

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a little younger in age usually they're
forced out of their villages by poverty or

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by dreams of

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a better life many of them get trapped
either in situations of sexual slavery or in

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situations of laborers Lavery many of them
when they approach the border some how

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their families have managed to save some
money to pay their community it could be

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up to three thousand dollars sometimes they
go yes he says to them one of them pay

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me that money you can just work for me so
that deal immediately traps them in this

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situation they're threatened with killing
their families if they try to escape the

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portray the police and their immigration
services or officers as as this you know

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the moves are going to come in just that
for them or send them to prison so that

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it's very difficult for them to scape So
what can we do or what has to be done in

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the countries where these girls are being
brought into person we needed to change

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our laws in the Western countries that are
receivers of this young girl was apt to

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one thousand nine hundred nine Arlo's
didn't distinguish between prostitution and

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sex trafficking and we just assumed that
everybody who wasn't pursued to show was

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out of their own way all so then when the
trafficking concept is started to be

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introduced the police went would go out
and immediately try to see Couper the

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younger girls and why was the situation
they wouldn't assume that they were the

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there out of their own will but they would
just start investigating their cases and

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find out why were they bury their they
were under age and that has changed the

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landscape you're now working on this flash
based video game at bay Varick with this

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issue can something like this
even be addressed in a in

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a game context the game format Yeah that's

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a very good question because the first
time I heard about games for social change

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something in blew my mind it was like

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a whole. Arise on open for
me because I said wow game

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a game for you that can't have a tremendous
impact in their education but in

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a way that is not really like academically
Orthodox education but fun in the best

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of senses in the sense that his
interest in learning our game is

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a roleplay game the player is going to
embody certain characters and there is one

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character is a Latino girl trying
to cross the border to the U.S.

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But there is also another a
young girl who is living in

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a cocoa plantation in Cote d'Ivoire in
Africa every coast and she's enslaved they

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time she works like fourteen hours gather
in the cocoa fruit from the trees and

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then at my she has to satisfy the needs
of their overseers along with the other

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girls that are in the camp so that the main
point is to show that as labor it still

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exists and that you can do something
about it and that the people who earn

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a slave have possibilities to escape and
not only that but it was they escape that

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they had there is an enormous support for
them. Working on this project and seeing

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all the terrible things that men can do do
you ever get burnt out you just want to

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give up and I mean do you not lose hope
after well actually I think I would say is

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the opposite what I find is that when I
meet survivors that have been exposed to

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horrible tribulations and human rights
abuses these are people that found in

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themselves inside their souls of us an
incredible strength not only to overcome the

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trauma in be able to leave that normal life
but to even help other people come out

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of those situations and inspire people to
take action against this horrendous crime

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against humanity so for me it's an
incredible inspiration is just like I feel

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humbled by my characters and inspired to
do more to take action to spread the word

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and has always been an inspirational
journey. Thank you cello for sharing your

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journey the movie

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a sense of silence produced and directed
by cello Alvarez stilly I'm Jackson to

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pray almost live in Second Life and the
two thousand I produce Institute at bay

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back in San Francisco more conversations
to come many more taking. I was

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on the hour. The hour the

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hour. The hour I

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was

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a little. Bit you. Are on the

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.