Lilet Never Happened

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A Springfilm and 24fps features production in co-production with JaJa Film Productions, Witsenburg Film Productions and Film and Music Entertainment

Director: Jacco Groen

Producers: Jamillah van der Hulst & Jacco Groen

Duration: 105 minutes

Premiere: 2012 (International: Warsaw, Poland & National: Utrecht, Netherlands)

Sales by Media Luna New Films

The film Lilet Never Happened is a character driven story about Lilet, a maladjusted Filipino-American street-girl, who becomes Manila’s most famous child prostitute. International social worker Gloria desperately tries to safe Lilet from the sex industry but she fails again and again. Though Lilet gets many opportunities to quit, she stubbornly chooses the hard way.

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