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| Yvonne Williams wrote "A
Dance for Bethany," a film produced by her husband Marion Williams, left.
The Williams have decided to forgo any profits so that proceeds can help
eradicate human trafficking. |
A Dance
For Bethany
drama: factual fiction
Running Time: 104 minutes
Genre:
Drama, Romance Similar to: Erin Brockivich meets Antwone Fisher
Director: Brian Gurley
Story & Screenplay: Yvonne G. Williams
Producer: Marion D. Williams Co-Producer
Lee Nesbit
Executive Producer: Marion D.
Williams
MPAA
Rating: PG-13 General
Audiences
SUMMARY of the Movie:
A
DANCE FOR BETHANY
tells an inspiring and
compelling story of how one woman risks everything to help a sex trafficked
victim out of the world of slavery and into a world with a future and a hope
of fulfilling a childhood dream of becoming a real dancer. The fictional story
based on the reality of the sex trafficking market in today’s US, The
fictional Bethany Stevenson is iconic as a 12 year old runaway forced into sex
slavery as a stripper/prostitute. The film chronicles the struggle of reporter
Abbey Fisher to free her own self from the bondage of a politically correct
and comfortable lifestyle into her passion. After meeting and befriending
young Bethany, Abbey immediately meets opposition from local club owners who
don’t want to lose one of their prime moneymakers. Abbey is quickly challenged
when she learns that she is caught in a tightly woven web of politics, morals
and crime and becomes a problem to those who want to profit from sexually
exploiting young women. She takes on her husband and his colleague, Senator
George Abbot and their attempt at creating legislation that inadvertently
profits by the retailing of sex in the US thereby legitimizing it. With the
help of Sarah, Abbey's best friend and Co-worker and Eric Vandevere, local
dance instructor, Bethany receives support and courage to make a new life for
herself and in the process publicly exposes the dehumanization of the sex
trade in her city. In the end, the Reporter, Abbey Fisher is the one who finds
true redemption as she reaches outside herself to help another.
The story of the Story:
“Human
trafficking is a multibillion-dollar growth industry because, unlike drugs,
which are gone as soon as they are used, humans can be recycled. Because they
can continue to be exploited, they're a better investment for the
traffickers.”
...Terry
Coonan, Executive Director of the Center for the Advancement of Human Rights
at Florida State University
This story
could have been ripped from the Headlines. Click here to read the transcript
from the Anderson Cooper Report on CNN News January 24, 2007. The next week
ABC News ran a similar story. And Fox ran one last year. Investigative
Reporter Michele Gillen has been reporting on this issue for the past several
years. Yes, this is happening in America today! The story actually came from
Inspiration and we located all the information and facts about it later.
Yvonne had completely written
the script for A Dance For Bethany and was in L.A. at the Screenwriters
Expo when she turned on the television news one evening and saw Michele Gillen
and Terry Coonan sharing this information. She then contacted both Mr. Coonan
and Ms. Gillen and learned of the tragic scope of this now American issue that
had been mostly found in third world countries until the past few years.
Yvonne was astounded at how contemporary and real this problem is and that she
had been Inspired to tackle it as the subject of her first screenplay. She
was able to speak with Ms. Gillen at length and consult with Mr. Coonan to
verify the facts of what she had written and make a few tweaks for accuracy.
This is a story that wanted to be told.
1) Media Contact - Marion Williams
at 1-828-216-9036
marion@rtbp.net
2) DVD
available here:
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3)
High resolution photos here:
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4) News
Articles - Click
