If you've never been to the Southwest Houston strip Bissonnet Street to see the sad and unsavory activity yourself, chances are you've heard about it or worse, you know someone who's been or is being sex trafficked there.
It doesn’t even sound right to put those three words together, 'people for sale', but that’s exactly what’s happening and typically the person being sold isn’t the one profiting.It’s plaguing a particular part of Bissonnet Street. So, some Houston filmmakers are using their cameras to tell a story, striving to fix a problem in the process. "It’s definitely heartbreaking. I have people that I know personally that have experienced this.
"We wrote this film to let people know this is something we want people to get out of, and not be a part of this lifestyle," Mone't explains. "My life at home was shady, but life on the street is pitch black," says one character in the movie who's a trafficking victim. "You are going to see some dark and scary and gritty things in the film," Mone't explains and one of the film's actresses Destiny Greene adds, "Making this film, I know it touched me. It kind of traumatized me. I was telling her I’m not coming back on Bissonnet". The 50 cast and crew members on the suspenseful thriller ‘Bissonnet' have that option but the thousands trafficked on the street the film is named for unfortunately feel they don’t.
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