The Newhouse School’s Department of Television-Radio-Film, and Stone Canoe, A Journal of Arts, Literature and Social Commentary will present a screening of the documentary film “Not My Life” on Thursday, Feb. 9, at 7 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3. The event is free and open to the public. A Q-and-A with filmmaker Robert Bilheimer will follow the screening. The event is free and open to the public.
Filmed on five continents over a period of four years, “Not My Life” explores the practice of human trafficking and slavery, a multi-billion-dollar global industry whose profits, as the film’s narration says, “are built on the backs and in the beds of our planet’s youth.”
For more information about the screening, contact Tula Goenka at 315-443-3946 or tgoenka@syr.edu.
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