Child sex trafficking is in every city in every country on every continent, and it needs to be at the forefront of our conversation.”Īnderson says viewers might be surprised to learn this atrocity is going on in their own backyard. “Start a conversation locally so we can get to the bottom of this atrocity that is going on in front of all of our noses around the world,” she said. Or, if you’re a teacher, there’s also a school version you can show your students. If you can get 65 or more people to attend, you’re guaranteed a screening.
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If you don’t see the movie in your local listings, head straight to the film’s website and request a screening in your hometown. They estimate that 1.8 million children a year are sold for sex trafficking … It’s a $150 billion industry, the human slavery industry, and this film is … a talking point that can be screened in theaters around the states.” “It is the third-fastest growing black market industry in the world. “The campaign is essentially to end child trafficking, to spread awareness globally about the industry of it,” Anderson said. The campaign is now spreading the word with the hashtag #TaughtNotTrafficked. But that’s a small aspect of a much bigger campaign.” By the time they ended up filming, they had created a character based on a real-life humanitarian photographer called Lisa Kristine. “At the time, there wasn’t really a character in it for me. “I got a call from my good friend Jeffrey Brown, who asked whether I would get involved with the movement behind the film,” Anderson said. It’s very difficult to see this film without asking the question at the end: What can I do?” “Art is a very, very powerful and effective tool,” Anderson told WTOP. “By getting to observe the experiences of one girl, she becomes the voice of the millions who don’t have a voice and the millions who don’t have a choice in their lives … When people are moved by film … they are often moved into action. Brown (who also directs) and executive produced by Emma Thompson, the film follows a 12-year-old girl who risks everything for freedom after being trafficked from her mountain village in Nepal to a brothel in India. “X-Files” star Gillian Anderson is using her television fame to combat the horrifying issue of human trafficking in the new film “Sold,” which opens Friday at DC’s Angelika Pop Up at Union Market.īased on a novel by Patricia McCormick, adapted by Joseph Kwong and Jeffrey D. WASHINGTON - The truth is out there - even when it hurts. Business & Finance Click to expand menu.Moody, murky, and graphically grisly, The X-Files: I Want to Believe seems like a film made solely to make money. The subplot involving Connolly's psychic pedophile priest comes out of nowhere and stays there, never really engaging the audience and wasting the charisma and charm that stand-up-comic-turned-actor Connolly has brought to prior roles in films like Mrs. Both of the actors are capable of more than this, and it feels like they know it. Duchovny slouches back into action-hero mode, armed with his faith in the unknown and avid desire to understand the incomprehensible Anderson gets to agonize over the questions surrounding a young child with a terminal illness. Worse, The X-Files: I Want to Believe squanders both Duchovny and Anderson.
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Fans will no doubt be disappointed by the film's avoidance of director (and series creator) Chris Carter's squirrely rat's nest of entanglements and secrets that was the hallmark of the series non-fans probably won't care in the first place. The film doesn't really intersect with the aliens-and-shadowy-humans conspiracy mythos explored throughout the series and in the prior film instead, it's a stand-alone story that feels a little lonesome, as if no one could think of any reason beside the profit motive for returning to the franchise.
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Coming to theaters six years after the end of the TV series and a decade after the last big-screen outing for The X-Files, it's a little hard to see the point of X-Files: I Want to Believe.
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