5th - 9th of March 2020

Chicas Nuevas 24 Horas

Mabel Lozano - Spain, 2015 - 70 min

Chicas Nuevas 24 Horas is not a unique documentary for mixing false documentary with investigation across five countries, but for placing the point of view in the pervert gaze of the big business that human trafficking means. Lozano looks at trafficking from a perspective of export business, economic exploitation, feminization of poverty and post colonialism between Spain and South America.

The documentary shows step by step how to set up a business that moves 32 thousand million dollars peryear. A business were everything is profit, as the body of a woman, can be sold in multiple occasions over theday, even against their will.

About the filmmaker

Spanish Mabel Lozano originally made a name as an actress, model and TV presenter. In 2007 she embarked on a university course to learn filmmaking and then produced her first feature documentary Voices against trafficking of women. It was the first part of the trilogy about the sex industry and trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation, for which Lozano has won multiple awards across the globe. Chicas Nuevas 24 Horas (New Girls 24 hours) is the concluding film of the trilogy.

Director: Mabel Lozano