Happening on the 24th of March, NUSSU, USC and Caerus Innovation Labs are jointly presenting the 3.50 the movie at LT50 university town. All students are invited to attend the event. RSVP at http://3-50themovie.eventbrite.sg now, seats are filling up fast!
There will also be a panel discussion by Miss Eunice Olsen and Miss Sara Nadelman, Country Director for Transitions Global, to share more about their experiences while working on this movie.
Event Timeline
6.30pm – 7.00pm: Tea Reception
7.00pm – 8.45pm: Movie Screening
8.45pm – 10.00pm: Panel Discussion (Human trafficking)
Movie Description
When a young Cambodian girl is abducted from her village, an American documentary filmmaker ventures deep into the underbelly of Phnom Penh to find her and crosses paths with various other lives that are affected by the city’s harsh rules of survival.
These are stories that have been pulled from the streets of PhnomPenh, dramatising the socio-economic reality of the country with keen insights into the human condition through the heinous backdrop of its criminal enterprise. The multi-layered story follows a doctor, a foreign journalist, a taxi-driver, a street peddler and a prostitute, as they navigate the socio-economic tensions that allow poverty and its problems to flourish. Each must come to terms with their own cultural expectations as their paths converge. REBECCA (Eunice Olsen), a documentarian and American expatriate living in PhnomPenh stumbles into a new and more interesting project when an interviewee mentions the fifteen-year-old JORA was taken from the village and into the big city. Rebecca’s instincts and moral convictions take over, leading her to investigate the underbelly of the Cambodian capital with reckless abandon. As Rebecca’s motivations cohere around Jora and exposing the city’s criminal elements, her connection to other characters come to the fore, portraying them as people who earnestly hope to surrender to the better angels of their nature but yet to discover the courage within them to change.
Completely set in modern-day Phnom Penh, the city stands as a microcosm of silent prayers and shattered desires where disparate individuals are tormented by their conscience in desperate circumstances. A study of the physical and emotional intricacies affecting the everyday lives of a diverse group of people bound together by the city’s deep dark secrets, it organically connects these stories based on motivation, relationships, and circumstance within the span of three days as these interlocking journeys weave and cross into each other’s paths, blurring the line between victim and oppressor.
Biography of speakers
Eunice Olsen
No stranger to Singapore and regional audiences and media channels, Eunice Olsen has become renowned not only for her illustrious political career but also for her beauty and her talent in the Singaporean media sphere. Performing across a range of platforms, from the fashion runway, to television, Eunice Olsen has ably and credibly demonstrated her versatility and talent in taking up widely different projects and delivering with passion, flair and distinction.
Since winning the tiara in the Miss Singapore Universe pageant in 2000, Eunice has gone on to helm many television projects, including, Wheel of Fortune, FRONT, Rouge, an award nominated talk show, and The Duke on AXN. She made her acting debut on “Red Thread” has gone on to act in various different television serials and feature films. She launched her online interview series “womentalk tv” in August 2013 and has just received an nomination of an Internatoinal Digital Emmy Award.
She co-produced the first ever Singapore/Cambodian film “3.50” in 2013, a feature film that explores the different players of the sex-trafficking industry in Cambodia.
Eunice received an Honoree for The Outstanding Young Persons of Singapore Award in March 2006. In the same year, she was conferred the Singapore Youth Award. Olsen was also the proud recipient of the ASEAN Youth Award in 2008 and was nominated as a Young Global Leader to represent Singapore in the World Economic Forum in 2009.
Her wide reach over the hearts and minds of Singaporeans also extends beyond the scope of entertainment, to social activism. Eunice is actively involved with non-profit and philanthropic causes, namely, the Muscular Dystrophy Association of Singapore, Habitat for Humanity and the Community Chest.
Sara Nadelman
Sara Nadelman, M.P.H. is the Country Director for Transitions Global, an NGO based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia that provides holistic aftercare to victims of sex trafficking. She provides oversight for and leadership of all the Transitions programs on the ground in Phnom Penh. (http://transitionsglobal.org)
She received her B.A. in Sociology from Syracuse University in 2002, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
As part of her duties in the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Department of Psychiatry (2002-2008), she was the first administrator for the Division of International Psychiatry, coordinated work on a Department of Education international psychiatry/public health grant and an anxiety/depression post-MI study. She also co-coordinated the Psychosomatic Fellowship. Her work with Gregory Fricchione, MD and Chester Pierce, MD inspired her to pursue international mental health in graduate school.
While working at MGH, Ms. Nadelman went on to get her Masters in Public Health with a concentration in International Health from Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH).
In 2007, Ms. Nadelman served as a research intern with P.I. Paul Bolton, MD (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) and spent 3 weeks in Phnom Penh, Cambodia performing capacity building research with World Vision International staff on the mental health issues of sexually trafficked girls. This trip sparked a long-term interest in working with sexually trafficked girls and in human trafficking prevention and aftercare.
In 2008, Ms. Nadelman began her work at Boston University. As Administrative Manager for the Office of Academic Affairs for the Boston University School of Medicine, she worked on curriculum oversight projects as well as serving on the executive committee for the school’s successful reaccreditation.
In late 2011, Ms. Nadelman began her position at Brigham and Women’s Hospital as the Project Manager for the Center for Professionalism and Peer Support, a specialized physician support program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) in Boston, MA.
She left Brigham and Women’s Hospital in March 2013 to begin her role at Transitions Global.
We look forward to seeing you on March 24, 2014!