Indie Film WAKE UP Demands That Sex Trafficking Be Acknowledged by Suburbia.
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“I want to wake up suburbia and say, ‘Look, your girls are on phones, and they're meeting people and [there's] technology as a way of grooming and also kids in foster care are being exploited more than any other,’” says Craig, who also stars in the film aside from directing and writing it. “We wanted to show that it's not really about good versus evil, but about people capable of both, and I wanted to show all types of people that are involved in [sex trafficking].
“Sex trafficking could happen to every kid, it could happen to every person in every neighborhood, and also that people don't think anything of watching pornography,” Craig says. “[Through Bob] we wanted to show that it's not innocent when people do that, that the girls that they're watching are mostly trafficked there … We want to just have them wake up to how they might be inadvertently participating in trafficking.
“We didn't want to exploit anyone in a movie that's against exploitation, so we had no nudity,” Wise says. “We wanted to keep it realistic, but something that you can bring your child to, and often the imagination is worse.”
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