Tulsa’s Demand Project Teams Up With Producer For Human Trafficking Awareness Film

A Tulsa nonprofit dedicated to stopping child trafficking got to work with a movie producer, Ejaz Khan, on a film being released next year.

The Demand Project said the producer's team for the movie "Trapped" reached out to the organization back in April because they were looking for experts to educate them on the topic of human trafficking and child sex abuse.

The movie sheds light on abuse and sex trafficking in the United States.  It’s being marketed by using interviews from organizations like the Demand Project or law enforcement so people who watch the film can also be more educated on the topic.

Jamie Miller with the Demand Project said this movie and partnership is more about raising hope than simply telling a sad story. The goal is to show there is hope for children impacted by trafficking and how to invest in their restorative care to prevent it from happening again.

"When people watch a film that raises their emotions or that gets them really charged up about this cause, instead of asking them to send someone else to see the movie, we are going to encourage them to invest in these children’s lives by supporting the largest safe house in the nation," Miller said.

Miller said the movie is also going to help fund the Demand Project's efforts. This includes at the end of the movie putting a call out for 25,000 people to give $10 a month to fully fund the Mount Arukah campus, which is a safe house campus and a restorative care center for children surviving sex trafficking, the Demand Project established in August 2020.

"What everyone’s responsibility is, is to care for them in the restorative care process, and that is what we’re doing at the Demand Project. We are raising hope for survivors, and this producer, Ejaz, he wants to show the nation that there is hope for these children," Miller said.

A private screening of the movie is taking place on October 10 in Broken Arrow before it's released in theaters to the public in January which is also National Human Trafficking Awareness Month.