The 11th Edition of the SR Socially Relevant™ Film Festival in-person section closed on March 18, at the National Arts Club in New York. The Festival opened at the Maysles Cinema on March 13 and ran at MRHS and Cinema Village. The festival covers social issues totaling 53 films this year. The Official Selection is accessible online through the festival website. The main themes are 100 Years of Armenian Cinema, Black History, BIPOC films, Aging and Disability, Women, LGBTQI+,...
Since 2017 SIFFA successfully bring together leaders who shape global cinema and business at its organizations many times a year, the SIFFA Awards (Meetings). We’re bringing to the UK cinema lovers films that they are not able to see anywhere else in this country.
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MAYA will make its WORLD PREMIERE at the @raindancefilmfestival in London!
Maya premieres on October 30, 2023 at 6:00 pm at Vue Piccadilly and will be followed by a Q&A
Please join us if you are in the area !
Per Raindance: “Written, directed and produced by Julia Verdin, Maya is a stark social impact film engaging with the dangers of online grooming and sexual exploitation. Young Maya, whilst doing well both sociall...
Maya will have its US premiere in LA at La Femme International film festival (Oct 19-22, 2023).
We are back on-the-ground with events, mixers, awards ceremony, screenings and more with additional virtual elements online for our worldwide audiences.
We will have films, seminars, awards show, special films and much more
Our festival is in OCTOBER annually in Los Angeles, we will be hosting our standing room only panels and screenings as well as offering a potential online...
ONE OF THE FASTEST GROWING CRIMINAL INDUSTRIES IN THE WORLD IS THE BUYING AND SELLING OF PEOPLE.
These are the facts…
Child sex trafficking is reported in all 50 states and 30% of trafficking victims globally are children. (Source: 2020 Trafficking in Persons Report, UN)
A big misconception is that Trafficking is a crime that just happens overseas and mainly in 3rd world countries, but the reality is, it’s a domestic problem happening right on our doorsteps that...
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Director / Cast: MAYA is directed by award-winning independent British filmmaker Julia Verdin, and stars actors Patricia Velasquez, Rumer Willis, Rena Owen, Gian Franco Rodriguez, Anthony Montgomery , Billy Budnich, Betzaida Landin and Isabella Feliciana as Maya.
Genre: Social Impact Thriller
Logline: When a teenager seeking an escape from her alcoholic mother's abusive boyfriend is lured into a traff...
When I volunteered at a shelter for runaway teens, I was shocked by how many of them were convinced that their traffickers loved them, and that they would come back to rescue them. The whole idea of the Stockholm syndrome type of relationship with a captor has always intrigued me. I was inspired to write Maya after hearing many stories from survivors about the Stockholm type relationships they had with their traffickers. In talking to detectives on trafficking task forces, they noted that it i...
