Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Not My Life

Not My Life

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the TFAR nomination of the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page unless you are renominating the article at TFAR. For renominations, please add   to the top of the discussion and   at the bottom, then complete a new TFAR nom underneath.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/November 17, 2014 by BencherliteTalk 09:54, 5 November 2014 (UTC)



Not My Life is a 2011 American independent documentary film about human trafficking and contemporary slavery. The film was written, produced, and directed by Robert Bilheimer (pictured), who had been asked to make the film by Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Not My Life addresses many forms of slavery, including the military use of children in Uganda, involuntary servitude in the United States, forced begging and garbage picking in India, sex trafficking in Europe and Southeast Asia, and other kinds of child abuse. Fifty people are interviewed in the film, including Don Brewster of Agape International Missions, who says that all of the girls they have rescued from child sex tourism in Cambodia identify Americans as the clients who were the most abusive to them. The film was dedicated to Richard Young, its cinematographer and co-director, after he died in December 2010. It had its premiere the following month at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. Not My Life was named Best World Documentary at the 2012 Harlem International Film Festival. Support nice article, appalling subject, and certainly worthy of a high profile placement on the front page. - SchroCat (talk) 00:03, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Most recent similar article(s): The Whistleblower, which is not a documentary but deals with human trafficking (September 4, 2014)
 * Main editors: Neelix
 * Promoted: 2014
 * Reasons for nomination: This film covers human trafficking in thirteen countries representing five continents, and therefore has international relevance.
 * Support as nominator. Neelix (talk) 20:23, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Support. Sorry to that I didn't get a chance to fully take time to do an in-depth reading and subsequent analysis and comment at the FAC itself, but most happy to Support, here. :) The article is high quality and helps with WP:WORLDVIEW. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 16:43, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Support, raising awareness of people trafficking is always good. —  Cliftonian   (talk)  17:30, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Support - agree - good subject to raise readers' awareness of. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 22:21, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Support: concur with the comments above.  Tim riley  talk    08:04, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Support. Well done. Prhartcom (talk) 21:41, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Support Neelix was kind to consult with perhaps the most authoritative critic of this documentary, who was kind themselves to create a Wikipedia account to comment on this nomination. The support of that person in the featured article review and their praise for this article's state makes me confident to endorse the broader promotion of this Wikipedia article.  Blue Rasberry   (talk)  18:21, 30 October 2014 (UTC)