Lifetime is bringing consciousness concerning the brutal enterprise of human trafficking with an upcoming movie starring Anne Heche and Larissa Dias.
Woman in Room 13 is impressed by precise occasions and can be directed by Elisabeth Rohm.
As a part of a Cease Violence Towards Girls marketing campaign, Lifetime will create a brand new PSA in assist of the Polaris Challenge and the Nationwide Human Trafficking Hotline.
Lifetime greenlights the brand new Ripped from the Headlines film, Woman in Room 13, a movie impressed by precise occasions, exploring the darkish underworld of the $150-billion-dollar human trafficking trade.
Returning to Lifetime, Emmy nominee Anne Heche stars as Janie, and Larissa Dias stars as her daughter Grace, who’s kidnapped by Richie (Max Montesi) for human trafficking.
Beneath the Broader Focus initiative, Lifetime additionally reunites with Elisabeth Rohm for her third directorial mission with the community, having beforehand directed 2021’s Woman within the Basement and Switched Earlier than Start.
Debuting in fall 2022, Woman in Room 13 will carry to mild necessary points and proceed to drive messaging for the community’s Cease Violence Towards Girls marketing campaign.
Woman in Room 13 is the most recent film in Lifetime’s profitable “Woman In” franchise which included Woman within the Basement, Woman within the Shed, Woman within the Field, and Woman within the Bunker amongst others.
Impressed by precise occasions, Woman in Room 13 examines the story of Grace (Dias), who was hooked on opioids after her physician prescribed them for a sports activities harm at a really younger age and after three stints in rehab, she is lastly prepared to show her life round.
Beneath the watchful eye of her mom, Janie (Heche), Grace takes on a job at her household’s restaurant.
However her previous is not going to let her go and when her pal coerces her into assembly her former love curiosity and drug supplier, Richie (Montesi), she finds herself imprisoned in a lodge room with no means out.
Held captive, Richie repeatedly violates Grace, forces her to devour medication and alcohol, and starves her — all to interrupt her down in order that she turns into compliant and could be bought into human trafficking.
Refusing to surrender on her daughter even when her husband and the native police consider Grace has returned to a lifetime of utilizing, Janie begins an all-out hunt to seek out Grace.
Stopping at nothing, Janie discovers the darkish world of human trafficking and the stunning statistics about its widespread victims and its surprising accomplices.
Heche returns to Lifetime having beforehand starred in 2004’s Gracie’s Selection with Kristen Bell, 2006’s Deadly Want with Eric Roberts, and 2011’s Woman Battle with James Tupper.
Dias additionally beforehand starred in Household Photos in 2019, reuniting her with Rohm who additionally starred within the film.
Woman in Room 13 is produced by Motel Productions Inc for Lifetime.
Tim Johnson, Stacy Mandelberg, and Yvonne Chotzen function government producers.
The movie is written by Maria Nation (The Gabby Douglas Story) and can be directed by Elisabeth Rohm.
In 2020, reporter Carmen Neithammer reported in Forbes that world statics on human trafficking are on the rise and the Worldwide Labor Group estimates that there are at present 25 million victims worldwide, together with males, ladies, and youngsters.
The $150 billion greenback enterprise of human trafficking is aware of no bounds and traffickers use banks, transportation, lodge rooms, and social media to lure of their victims, usually involving authentic companies and firms.
Bringing consciousness to this depraved enterprise is essential to ending its follow. Will you be watching Woman in Room 13?
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