Child trafficking drama, Sold, is Academy-Award winning Jeffrey Brown’s take on the issue in South Asia as he adapted Patricia McCormick’s novel this year. The film is being shown to festival audiences currently, and has already won the top prize — Pure Heaven Audience award at the London Indian Film Festival and the third runner-up position at the Albuquerque Film and Media project. The film is about a young Nepali girl who is sold into sex slavery and ends up in Kolkata.

Casting director, Tess Joseph

The film, apart from its hard-hitting revelation of the child prostitution nexus, has several heavyweights to chisel the narrative in the best manner possible. For starters, Emma Thompson is the executive producer while Gillian Anderson, David Arquette, Seema Biswas and Tillotama Shome face the camera. The latest entry in this talent pool of actors is Niyar Saikia who is considered a discovery by the film’s casting director, Tess Joseph.