film screening of Very Young Girls Saturday, May 4, 2013 4:00pm until 7:00pm in EDT

information from Girls Are Not For Sale

Tomorrow night! Come to a screening of Very Young Girls at NYU’s Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life from 4-7pm with GEMS and Youth Take Charge. A panel discussion and dinner will follow the screening, which is free and open to the public!

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Youth Take Charge is hosting a FREE film screening & panel event and we want you there!

Come join us for the screening of \"Very Young Girls,\" a documentary about the commercial sexual exploitation of girls in New York City. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with representatives from GEMS (Girls Educational & Mentoring Services), a New York City recovery center founded and run by Rachel Lloyd.

Dinner and refreshments will be provided. Open to the public. At the NYU Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life (ROOM C95), located at 238 Thompson Street.

\"Very Young Girls\" is an exposé of the commercial sexual exploitation of girls in New York City as they are sold on the streets by pimps and treated as adult criminals by police. The film follows barely adolescent girls in real time, using vérité and intimate interviews with them, documenting their struggles and triumphs as they seek to exit the commercial sex industry. The film also uses startling footage shot by pimps themselves, giving a rare glimpse into how the cycle of exploitation begins for many women.

The film identifies hope for these girls in the organization GEMS (Girls Educational & Mentoring Services), a recovery agency founded and run by Rachel Lloyd, herself a survivor of commercial sexual exploitation. GEMS is committed to ending commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking of children by changing individual lives, transforming public perception, and revolutionizing the systems and policies that impact commercially sexually exploited youth. Very Young Girls will change the way law enforcement, the media, and society as a whole look at the commercial sexual exploitation, street prostitution, and human trafficking that is happening right in our own backyard.