Dreamcatcher
(2018, original release: 2015)

Nonfiction

eVideo

Provider: Kanopy

Details

PUBLISHED
Women Make Movies, 2015
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2018
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (100 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
3288430
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Title from title frames

**Sundance **award-winner DREAMCATCHER takes us into a hidden world of prostitution and sexual trafficking through the eyes of one of its survivors, Brenda Myers-Powell. A former teenage prostitute with a drug habit, Brenda defied the odds to become a powerful advocate for change in her community, and works to help women and young girls break the cycle of sexual abuse and exploitation.. DREAMCATCHER lays bare the hidden violence that devastates the lives of these young women, their families and the communities where they live in Chicago and Brenda’s unflinching intervention that turns these desperate lives around.. Official Selection at the Hot Docs Film Festival and DOC NYC

Film

In Process Record

Brenda Myers-Powell

Originally produced by Women Make Movies in 2015

Mode of access: World Wide Web

In English

Additional Credits