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The film juxtaposes breathtaking scenery shots of the Himalayas with gruesome images of violence and degradation in the brothel and slum where the girl, named Lakshmi, and others are held captive. But the issue of child sex trafficking has risen to the top of her list, she said during a recent media junket promoting the film in New York.Globally, nearly 21 million people are victims of human trafficking, a $150 billion industry, according to the United Nation’s International Labour Organization.Of that total, an estimated 4.5 million people are forced into sex work. Children are estimated to comprise 5.5 million of the overall victims, according to the ILO. “It is so disturbing and so ugly, but what’s important is that it is in our face so that we are moved to action,” Anderson said.”SOLD” is backed by a campaign called TaughtNotTrafficked which aims to raise awareness of trafficking, support survivors and lobby for government and policy changes in partnership with advocacy groups worldwide.”The movement behind the film is bigger than the film itself,” she said. While in limited theatrical release, the 97-minute film can be screened on request through a company listed on the website SOLDtheMovie.com. Such on-demand showings allow people to arrange screenings in markets where it otherwise might not play.

One month a year, giant Himalayan bees, the biggest bees in the world, come to collect nectar from a poisonous flower, giving the honey they make certain medicinal, aphrodisiac, and hallucinogenic properties.” In this short documentary, filmmaker Raphael Treza meets with a Nepalese tribe to learn about this honey, and how they use it. During the making of the film, the translator eats too much of the honey and falls unconscious. The honey harvesting is dangerous because the bees make their colonies on the face of a cliff. The harvesters use handmade rope ladders to climb up and get to the honey.the delicate ecosystem that underpins this tradition is threatened by a changing climate, a rising market for the bees’ spring honey, and a new invasive species: tourists. Photographer Andrew Newey took pains to avoid contributing to these problems when he documented the Gurung ritual in 2013. Newey spent weeks trying to find responsible honey hunters that wouldn’t exploit the bees and their habitat for his money, and will not reveal the location of the cliffs they harvest. “I’d done plenty of research beforehand and I knew that tourism was having a detrimental impact on the region,” he says. “It was massively under threat and I thought I’d go over there and document it before it just disappears like too many other traditions around the world.”

KATHMANDU: An earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter Scale hit Kathmandu and its surrounding areas today, nearly a year after two devastating tremors killed over 9,000 people in Nepal.No loss of life was reported.The epicentre of the quake lied near Bhainsepati of Lalitpur, according to the National Seismological Centre. The residents of the city rushed out of their houses when the quake hit the city at around 7 PM.