The Wrong Light screens Saturday October 21st and Sunday October 22nd at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood). The movie starts each evening at 7:30pm.
Josie Swantek’s The Wrong Light tells the riveting story of a charismatic activist who leads a globally-regarded anti-trafficking Ngo in Northern Thailand that provides shelter and education to young girls rescued from brothels. But as the filmmakers embed themselves at the shelter and meet the young girls and their families, discrepancies begin to emerge. As the filmmakers embark in a quest for the truth while keeping the girls safe, the heroic tale takes a shocking turn and uncovers a dark side of child advocacy behind the trafficking headlines.
Admission is:
$6 for the general public
$5 for seniors, Webster alumni and students from other schools
$4 for Webster University staff and faculty
Free for Webster students with proper I.D.
Advance tickets are available from...
Josie Swantek’s The Wrong Light tells the riveting story of a charismatic activist who leads a globally-regarded anti-trafficking Ngo in Northern Thailand that provides shelter and education to young girls rescued from brothels. But as the filmmakers embed themselves at the shelter and meet the young girls and their families, discrepancies begin to emerge. As the filmmakers embark in a quest for the truth while keeping the girls safe, the heroic tale takes a shocking turn and uncovers a dark side of child advocacy behind the trafficking headlines.
Admission is:
$6 for the general public
$5 for seniors, Webster alumni and students from other schools
$4 for Webster University staff and faculty
Free for Webster students with proper I.D.
Advance tickets are available from...
- 10/16/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
[Editor’s Note: Producer Susan MacLaury and her non-profit production organization, Shine Global, believed they found a unique story about the sex trafficking of young girls by desperate parents and the activist rescuing them. Deep into the production, however, alarm bells started going off about the veracity of their story. The resulting documentary, “The Wrong Light,” captures the story of the filmmakers questioning the girls and the shelter’s founder as they search for the truth. IndieWire invited MacLaury, a former educator and social worker, to discuss the lessons she learned and what all documentary filmmakers need to consider before they start a film.]
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The inspiration for “The Wrong Light” came from Natalie Jesionka, then an adjunct professor at Rutgers University. She had just completed a Fulbright Scholarship in Thailand, in which she studied different approaches to counter the trafficking of young Thai girls. Natalie had been impressed in particular by Mickey Choothesa’s “upstream” approach that attempted to prevent parents from selling their daughters, then housed and educated those willing to surrender their custody to him.
We were excited to do this film because sex trafficking globally is a problem that annually affects millions of people, half of whom are children. From a documentary perspective, this was already an old story in late 2011, but telling it from the perspective of impoverished parents who felt they had no choice hadn’t ever been documented.
Our first shoot in Fall...
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The inspiration for “The Wrong Light” came from Natalie Jesionka, then an adjunct professor at Rutgers University. She had just completed a Fulbright Scholarship in Thailand, in which she studied different approaches to counter the trafficking of young Thai girls. Natalie had been impressed in particular by Mickey Choothesa’s “upstream” approach that attempted to prevent parents from selling their daughters, then housed and educated those willing to surrender their custody to him.
We were excited to do this film because sex trafficking globally is a problem that annually affects millions of people, half of whom are children. From a documentary perspective, this was already an old story in late 2011, but telling it from the perspective of impoverished parents who felt they had no choice hadn’t ever been documented.
Our first shoot in Fall...
- 7/22/2017
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
A dramatic reminder of how easy it is to exploit Westerners' good intentions in cultures they don't understand, The Wrong Light explains how documentarians Josie Swantek Heitz and Dave Adams avoided becoming the mouthpieces of a self-proclaimed rescuer of young Thai girls being sold into prostitution. Despite occasionally shaky storytelling, the doc sticks to its mission even as the most fundamental obstacles arise, producing a dramatic account that will make all do-gooders think twice about how they spend their charitable dollars. Theatrical appeal is modest, but word of mouth should help get the film seen on small screens and in...
- 7/15/2017
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The trailer for The Wrong Light begins on a positive note, describing the fine work being accomplished by an Ngo in Thailand that endeavors to help girls who have been rescued from brothels. But then it takes a queasy turn, suggesting that the leader of the group may be perpetrating something even more evil. Filmmakers Josie Swantek Heitz and Dave Adams began with the premise that the non-profit organization Cosa, founded in 2005 by Mickey Choothesa, was accomplishing good things. Once they traveled to Thailand and started interviewing the girls and their families, a different picture began to emerge. As stated in the official synopsis: "Unexpectedly, their conversations with both the girls and their families contradicted Mickey's version of their stories, making the truth that...
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- 7/6/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– Oscilloscope Laboratories has announced that it has acquired North American rights to Bill Ross and Turner Ross’s latest documentary featuring and produced by David Byrne, “Contemporary Color.” The film premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won awards for Best Documentary Cinematography and Best Documentary Editing.
The film’s camera operators included many well-known documentary directors and cinematographers, including Jarred Alterman, Sean Price Williams, Robert Greene, Amanda Rose Wilder, Jessica Oreck, Wyatt Garfield and Michael Palmieri. Oscilloscope will release the film in theaters in 2017 followed by a release across all ancillary platforms.
– Abramorama has acquired U.S. theatrical rights to Kim A. Snyder’s powerful documentary “Newtown,” which was produced by Itvs, while The Orchard will handle TV,...
– Oscilloscope Laboratories has announced that it has acquired North American rights to Bill Ross and Turner Ross’s latest documentary featuring and produced by David Byrne, “Contemporary Color.” The film premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won awards for Best Documentary Cinematography and Best Documentary Editing.
The film’s camera operators included many well-known documentary directors and cinematographers, including Jarred Alterman, Sean Price Williams, Robert Greene, Amanda Rose Wilder, Jessica Oreck, Wyatt Garfield and Michael Palmieri. Oscilloscope will release the film in theaters in 2017 followed by a release across all ancillary platforms.
– Abramorama has acquired U.S. theatrical rights to Kim A. Snyder’s powerful documentary “Newtown,” which was produced by Itvs, while The Orchard will handle TV,...
- 7/1/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Plus: Straight Up buys Man’s Search for Meaning rights; and more…
Cinema Guild has acquired all Us rights to documentary The Wrong Light (pictured), directed by Josie Swantek Heitz and Dave Adams.
Produced by Shine Global, the non-profit production company behind War/ Dance, The Wrong Light centres on a charismatic activist who leads an anti-trafficking Ngo in Northern Thailand that provides shelter and education to young girls rescued from brothels.
Cinema Guild plans to give the film a Us theatrical release in the autumn.
• Straight Up Films has acquired the rights to Man’s Search For Meaning, the memoir by psychiatrist Viktor Frankl about life in the Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. At the time of Frank’s death in 1997, the book had sold more than 10 million copies in twenty-four languages. Straight Up is talking to potential screenwriters to adapt the book into a narrative feature.
• The American...
Cinema Guild has acquired all Us rights to documentary The Wrong Light (pictured), directed by Josie Swantek Heitz and Dave Adams.
Produced by Shine Global, the non-profit production company behind War/ Dance, The Wrong Light centres on a charismatic activist who leads an anti-trafficking Ngo in Northern Thailand that provides shelter and education to young girls rescued from brothels.
Cinema Guild plans to give the film a Us theatrical release in the autumn.
• Straight Up Films has acquired the rights to Man’s Search For Meaning, the memoir by psychiatrist Viktor Frankl about life in the Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. At the time of Frank’s death in 1997, the book had sold more than 10 million copies in twenty-four languages. Straight Up is talking to potential screenwriters to adapt the book into a narrative feature.
• The American...
- 6/27/2016
- ScreenDaily
It’s been a couple months since the last edition of What’s Up Doc? placed Michael Moore’s surprise world premiere of Where To Invade Next at the top of this list and in the meantime much shuffling has taken place and much time has been spent on various new endeavors (namely my Buffalo-based film series, Cultivate Cinema Circle). Finally taking its rightful place at the top, D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hagedus’ Unlocking the Cage is in the midst of being scored by composer James Lavino, according to Lavino’s own personal site. Though the project has been taking shape at its own leisurely pace, I’d expect to see the film making its festival debut in early 2016.
Right behind, the American direct cinema masters is a Texan soon to make his non-fiction debut with Voyage of Time. Just two weeks ago indieWIRE reported that Ennio Morricone, who scored...
Right behind, the American direct cinema masters is a Texan soon to make his non-fiction debut with Voyage of Time. Just two weeks ago indieWIRE reported that Ennio Morricone, who scored...
- 11/5/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
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