Dallas filmmaker Desmond Donahue put his advocacy onto the big screen with Mister Gates, a film about human trafficking.
, in which he played one of the villains in the film who never got caught. Since the movie's premiere in 2014, the Oak Cliff native has been having dreams of a man of color fighting against sex trafficking in North Texas.
“I started to get better at writing and structuring it differently, to get the message across and to really develop the character, centered around Mr. Gates, but fighting against this evil in a way that would inspire the community to not only be aware, but do something,” Donahue says.tells the story of Christopher Gates, who returns home to Dallas after serving in the military. An unexpected tragedy leads to his dealing with the world of human trafficking.
“The thing I really had to do was really step away from acting at the time, go into the technology industry, save my money for five years and then be prepared to invest, to step out on my own faith to get this accomplished,” Donahue says. The film’s premiere will include a panel discussion with members of The Colony's police department and Tonya Stafford-Manning, the founder ofDonahue said he’s been friends with Stafford-Manning since she founded IGTBOK in 2014, and that they’ve been working together to help support one another’s projects.
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