True Vision wins 7th Emmy as Chinese try to ban film

At the Emmy Awards in New York on Monday night, Sex Slaves (broadcast in the UK as The Real Sex Traffic) was awarded the Emmy for Outstanding Long Form Investigation.

The film - nominated for a BAFTA last year, and winner of the Broadcast Award for Best Documentary - was Exec Produced by Brian Woods. This is his seventh Emmy.

Following the desperate efforts of a Ukrainian man, Viorel, to find his wife, Katia, who has been tricked and drugged into sexual exploitation by a trafficker, the film is now being shown to girls in schools in Eastern Europe, along the drama Sex Traffic, to inform them of the brutal realities that lie behind promises of waitressing and modelling jobs in the west. The film is also being used by police forces in the UK, US and Canada to educate officers who may come into contact with women trafficked for sex.

True Vision's latest film, China's Stolen Children is as the centre of a growing controversy over China's attempts to ban it. According to the Sunday Times the Chinese Embassy in London is seeking an injunction to prevent the film being shown, the Embassy has also complained to Ofcom and written to the Channel Four Board.

The film follows the parents of 5 year old Chen Jie as they desperately search for their kidnapped son, one of up to 70,000 children kidnapped and sold in China every year as a result of the One Child Policy. It includes secretly shot footage of a trafficker buying a one year old boy in a park, and negotiating the sale of the child to a couple in a hotel room. An extract of the film can be seen here.

The film is produced by Brian Woods and Kate Blewett, the team that made the seminal 1995 documentary about China, The Dying Rooms, and is filmed and directed by debut director, Jezza Neumann. Co-producers, HBO have entered the film for the 2008 Oscars.

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