How does my product represent particular social groups?

We were trying to represent eastern european teenager girls and older, physically stronger, corrupt males who work in the black market. We tried to portray the girl as weak and vulnerable, with blonde hair and blue eyes we stuck to the stereotypical party teen. We took examples for other abductions like Madeline Mccann, blonde, blue eyes, vulnerable and young. Obviously our victim was older because later on in the film we want the girl to be able to fight back with some of her abductors etc. We wanted to show binary opposition to her abductors, who were intimidating, older and physically stronger. The 2 workmen were based on the standered henchman stereotype, men who look mid-early 20s, quite dodgy and not very clever.

We wanted to create a stereotypical viuew on eastern europeans as being corrupt and in some respects morally bankrupt prepared to do anthting for money even sell children. Whereas we wanted to represent the British police who would eventually be involved in the film as the heroes and ultimately as morally upright and not willing to take bribes and accept the corruption of the eastern europeans. We took this idea from Spooks and Eastern Promises that also represents Eastern europeans ina negative light and shows binary opposition between the east and west and the people in it.

we reasearched sex trafficking in Bulgaria and articles on it and found this particular one;

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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st Century  -  2000 to 2010                                  gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Bulgaria.htm Republic of Bulgaria Bulgaria, a former Communist country that entered the EU on 1 January 2007, has experienced strong growth since a major economic downturn in 1996. Successive governments have demonstrated a commitment to economic reforms and responsible fiscal planning, but have failed so far to rein in rising inflation and large current account deficits. Bulgaria has averaged more than 6% growth since 2004, attracting significant amounts of foreign direct investment, but corruption in the public administration, a weak judiciary, and the presence of organized crime remain significant challenges.  [The World Factbook, U.S.C.I.A. 2009] Bulgaria is a source, transit, and, to a lesser extent, a destination country for men, women, and children from Ukraine, Moldova, and Romania trafficked to and through Bulgaria to Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Norway, the Czech Republic, Poland, Greece, Turkey, and Macedonia for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. Ethnic Roma women and children remain highly vulnerable to trafficking. Children are trafficked within Bulgaria and to Greece and the United Kingdom for the purposes of forced begging and forced petty theft. Around 15 percent of identified trafficking victims in Bulgaria are children. Bulgarian women and some men are trafficked internally, primarily to resort areas along the Black Sea coast and in border towns with Greece, for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor.   - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009   [full country report]

CAUTION:  The following links have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation in Bulgaria.  Some of these links may lead to websites that present allegations that are unsubstantiated or even false.  No attempt has been made to verify their authenticity or to validate their content. *** FEATURED ARTICLE *** Children from Bulgaria Victims of Human Trafficking Most Often The Sofia Echo, Jun 28 2007 sofiaecho.com/2007/06/28/651263_children-from-bulgaria-victims-of-human-trafficking-most-often [accessed 24 January 2011] Bulgarian children are most often the victims of trafficking and Bulgaria ranks as one of the most active human trafficking places in the Balkans.  Women and children are taken out of the country and most often forced to work or are used as organ donors, research of Animus association said as quoted by Novinar newspaper.

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This gave us proof that we were making a film about real life issues.

Romanian child traffickers found guilty

A gang of Romanian traffickers based in Wood Green north London have been found guilty by a judge at Croyden Crown Court for trafficking a young child and then abusing the seven year old girl.
Husband and wife [C] Aurel-llie Zlatea, 45 (6.10.66), and [D] Alexandra Oaie, 44 (30.01.68) were responsible for trafficking a seven year old Romanian girl into the country where she was beaten and used as domestic servant.

Together with their son [A] Marian Neamu, (aka Marian Zlatea), 25 (17.08.86) the couple was also responsible for trafficking a 53-year-old man from Romania to their home in Wood Green. There he was repeatedly assaulted, forced to work for nothing and made to live in a dilapidated shed at the end of the garden. He was also denied access to bathroom, fed very little and subjected to a brutal sexual attack at the hands of Neamu and Zlatea's younger son [B] Florin Zlatea, 23 (25.08.88).

These allegations came to light in March 2011 when the 53-year-old victim contacted police to say he had been bought into the country by the Zlatea family. He explained what had happened to him and informed them about a girl also being abused by the family. When police attended the family's address on 1 April 2011 they found a child who appeared to have been neglected and uncared for. The child was taken into police protection and placed in emergency care by social services. When interviewed she told police that she had come to the UK in a car and taken to a "dirty house" where she was beaten by a woman she described as "awful" who made her work.

Zlatea told police he was the child's father and Oaie said the girl was the product of her husband's affair with another woman. He also handed over the girl's birth certificate, which showed him as the father, and a court order giving custody of the child to him. The child's natural mother was named on both and DNA tests proved that neither Zlatea nor Oaie were parents of the child.