A CIVIL REMEDY a short documentary film about sex trafficking produced by Film and Law Productions

The Woods Hole Public Library Presents the Woods Hole Debut of
A CIVIL REMEDY

On July 11, 2012, the Woods Hole Public Library will offer the Woods Hole premiere of A CIVIL REMEDY, a short documentary film that tells the story of one sex trafficking victim who survived - an American girl who was trafficked into prostitution in Boston at the age of seventeen, escaped to her family, and survived to finish school and become an anti-trafficking advocate.

Conversation with Director Kate Nace Day, who spent her childhood summers in Woods Hole,  will follow.  A first-time filmmaker, Kate is also a Professor of Law at Suffolk University and Founder of Film and Law Productions. Join Kate to explore the importance of survivors’ stories, the meaning of justice, and the need to place new legal tools in the hands of victims. A civil remedy - a state civil action for money damages - will empower victims to reclaim their equal place in their community, see their violators held accountable, and drain resources from the global sex industry.

FILM AND LAW PRODUCTIONS has it roots inside the law school classroom in pedagogical experiments with storytelling, film and filmmaking. These experiments all involve the relationships of form to substance, pedagogy to vision, and the question of how best to illuminate the human stories that often go missing in law’s stories. Law’s stories take the form of dialogue, a highly structured, almost architectural exchange of questions and answers that translates the messy details of human stories—bodies and emotions, social contexts, and moral doubts—into apparently neutral and universal stories of written texts, precedent, and authority. Law’s stories say simply, “this is what law is.”

Film and Law Productions presents other stories – stories as vibrant retellings of law that render visible what law does. These stories bring us back from the abstract to the real, from the general to the personal and particular – in Eudora Welty’s words, to “each other’s presence, each other’s wonder, each other’s human plight.”

The film will start at 7:30 PM in the lower level of the Library. For more local information, view the Library’s website at www.woodsholepubliclibrary.org or call the Library at 508-548-8961. The event is free and open to the public.

For more information about Film and Law Productions visit their official website at http://filmandlaw.com. For press inquiries, contact: Shannon Carroll at info@filmandlaw.com  or call  617-942-1148.