Spotlight on: Filmmaker Jessica Boss Writer/Director of UNNAMED

A World Premiere at Dances With Films LA…

The World Premiere of Jessica Boss’s directorial debut feature film, UNNAMED will screen Thursday, July 27th at 9:15 PM at Dances With FilmsLA in the TCL Chinese Theatre.  

Inspired by true events, UNNAMED is a thriller about a young and beautiful Nigerian woman working as a hairstylist who meets a successful female producer on location in her country and convinces her to come to Hollywood. But her dreams of owning her own salon turn into a living nightmare when the producer forces her into sex trafficking.

UNNAMED‘s cast includes: Jessica Boss, Lulu Grace Onwuaka, Brooke McCormick, Carmelita Hughes, Arturo Encinas, Charlie Rojas, Scarlett Islas, Gabriela Lopez, Jeannie Elise Mai, Godwin Asamoah Obeng, Cesar D’ La Torre, Krisha Desai.

Director Jessica Boss said that her purpose in making “UNNAMED is to shed light on the rampant, worldwide issue of trafficking that also happens in our own backyard, in a compelling and moving motion picture. The film is a timely narrative story that deals with the harsh reality of sex trafficking that affects millions of women, children and men in every single country in the world.

One day, I was watching YouTube videos to teach myself my native Nigerian Pidgin dialect, when I stumbled upon videos of real women detailing the horrors of being trafficked by madams and johns. The videos broke my heart and lit a fire in me to educate myself so that I could be part of the solution to help eradicate this crime.“

What my film aims to do is to tell a riveting story centered around a poor Nigerian woman, Ijeoma, who represents the millions of “unnamed” women who are in bondage worldwide and silenced by their madams and johns, making it impossible for them to seek help.

Through filmmaking, I believe it is the most influential way to raise awareness of what is happening not only in third world countries, but also right here in our backyard. In the US alone, 1 in 3 children are at risk for sex trafficking, and worldwide there are an estimated 20-30 million women, men and children currently enslaved.

Those women, children and men in captivity could be your daughters, sons, sisters, brothers, friends, you or me. It starts with awareness and educating ourselves on the problem so that we can find solutions.“

Jessica told us that at the Dances With Films premiere on June 27th: “We’re giving away safety whistles with the trafficking hotline’s number on it. We will have people blow their whistles to promote safety with women.”

*Information in this article from UNNAMED press release provided by Boss Pictures and Jessica Boss.

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