The Documentary Film Crew

While shooting Tin Girls, a documentary on sex trafficking produced by Canal Plus Spain, we met Deepa, Bimala, Kalpana and Rita, among many other young survivors. We met them through HimRights, an NGO working to prevent trafficking in South Asia and our local counterpart for the documentary.

When the survivors shared their dream with the crew, film director Miguel Bardem, producer Jose Bustos, and journalist Chelo Alvarez, could not help but respond.

Jose Bustos invited his colleagues at Sogecable 0.25% (an organization of Sogecable’s employees in Spain who donate 0.25% of their salary to charity projects,) to join in the effort.

Our Nepali counterparts

HimRights is an independent public interest civil society advocacy platform operating across the Himalayas on the issues of human rights, gender justice, peace, good governance and environment. It works in close partnership with all like-minded human rights organizations, including Inhured International, Amnesty International, SOS-Torture, Human Rights Watch, Hague Appeal for Peace, Asia Pacific Watch, Beyond Beijing Committee and various UN specialized agencies.

Purna Shakya is Vicepresident of HimRights and financial controller for the Masala project in Kathmandu.

Narbada Chhetri of HimRights is the local supervisor in Hetauda.

Chelo Alvarez is a journalist and documentarian from Spain based in Los Angeles, USA. She is the Masala Project's coordinator.