EDEN

SPECIAL JURY AWARD WINNER (SXSW): BEST PERFORMANCE (JAMIE CHUNG) 2012
AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER (SXSW): BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE (2012)
SPECIAL JURY AWARD WINNER (SXSW): BEST EMERGING WOMAN DIRECTOR (2012)

GENRE: Thriller/True Story

STARRING: Jamie Chung (Sucker Punch, The Hangover II), Beau Bridges (The Descendants, The Fabulous Baker Boys), Matt O’Leary (Brick, Live Free or Die Hard)

DIRECTOR: Megan Griffiths (The Off Hours, First Aid for Choking)

PRODUCERS: Colin Harper Plank, Jacob Mosler (Mean Creek, Winter Break)
BASED ON A TRUE STORY BY CHONG KIM

SYNOPSIS: Based on the true-life story of Chong Kim, a victim of human trafficking in her teenage years, Eden puts a spotlight on the chilling problem of human sex trafficking in America. The film begins in a New Mexico bar where teenager, Hyun Jae, accepts a free drink from a handsome young man who offers her a ride home. But she never reaches home and is instead thrown into the trunk of his car, and smuggled into Nevada where she is imprisoned in a storage facility-turned brothel. Hyun Jae is renamed Eden by her captors, and learns what the rest of her life will entail: sex with strangers, making porn films and fighting for survival. She is quick to make a tight bond with another enslaved worker and wakes up to the fact that they both must escape at any cost.