Last night, I took nine students and other adults from Life Church to see Call + Response, a movie that came out in select cities, Denver thankfully being one of them. We saw it at the Landmark Mayan theater, which is just as pricey as the Landmark theater that I went and saw Religulous, but in this case, the popcorn and drinks weren't free. Grr.
Anyway, if you have the opportunity to see this movie, either in theater or on DVD, I urge you to do so. It is a documentary movie about human trafficking done in a visually and musically stunning way. There were interviews with movie stars (Julia Ormond, Ashley Judd), politicians, journalists, and leaders of anti-slavery organizations (Gary Haugen of IJM being one of them), interspersed with incredible music performances by Switchfoot, Cold War Kids, Imogen Heap, Justin Dillon (also the producer, writer, and documentarian in the film), Matisyahu, and others. It was a cool way to bring the issue of human trafficking to the forefront.
You can go to the movie's website to find out more information about the movie itself, as well as ways to get involved with the anti-slavery movement.
I am also going on Saturday to a conference called HTAC - Human Trafficking Awareness Conference and will get to meet some of the people who are my heroes in this movement. I will blog about my experience after the conference.
2 comments:
We had a mission fair and there is a student from Apex who is interning for IJM ..he had the Gary Haugen books on his table so I looked through them. I'll be interested to hear about your conference.
Haugen's books are really good.
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