The Stuck in Traffick film project: Engaging young men in community-based expressive arts activism

摘要

The Stuck in Traffick film project (SIT) is a community-based, expressive arts activism project supported by the Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation's Margaret's Place program (MP). SIT was sparked by the vision of five teen male participants of the MP peer leadership and young men's groups in Brooklyn, New York, in 2013. Through an integrative, expressive arts-based process, the young men used filmmaking to explore the relationship between two social issues that called to them: Domestic Violence and Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children. This article will discuss the SIT film project process, which included community-based expressive arts enquiry, production, exhibition and aesthetic response.