Books / Reviews / Documentary Projects

Mimi Chakarova was interviewed on NPR's Talk of the Nation about her film "The Price of Sex." Listen to
"Human Trafficking And The Terrible 'Price Of Sex'." For more press reviews visit http://priceofsex.org/react.

Read "The Human Rights Watch Film Festival Digs Deep, Asks the Hard Questions" review of THE PRICE OF SEX
in the Huffington Post, June 15, 2011.

Listen to NPR's Snap Judgment radio story featuring Mimi Chakarova and the backstory of her documentary
"The Price of Sex." Produced by Anna Sussman, June 2011.

Exposing the Sex Traffickers – investigative journalist and filmmaker Mimi Chakarova’s chilling documentary on the seamy
networks that traffic young girls from Eastern Europe to the West is profiled by Stephen Handelman in The Crime Report:
Inside Criminal Justice, April 2011.

Mimi Chakarova gains a new perspective on journalism as well as international crime in investigating 'The Price of Sex.'
Read the full film review in SF360.org, March 2011.

An interview with Mimi Chakarova in F8 Magazine about her social documentary projects. To see the full spread of
the interview and her portfolio, view the magazine online or click here, page 66-73. February 2011.

Watch the trailer of the documentary film investigating sex trafficking by Mimi Chakarova:

THE PRICE OF SEX is a feature-length documentary about young Eastern European women who’ve been drawn into a netherworld of sex trafficking
and abuse. Intimate, harrowing and revealing, it is a story told by the young women who were supposed to be silenced by shame, fear and violence.
Photojournalist Mimi Chakarova, who grew up in Bulgaria, takes us on a personal investigative journey, exposing the shadowy world of sex trafficking
from Eastern Europe to the Middle East and Western Europe. Filming undercover and gaining extraordinary access, Chakarova illuminates how even
though some women escape to tell their stories, sex trafficking thrives.

An interview with Mimi Chakarova on Captive Daughters about her sex trafficking work in Eastern Europe:
"It was my obligation to return and expose something that many chose to ignore or were too afraid to
acknowledge as a post-communist plague in our society."

IRAQ: LIVING IN HIDING, PBS' Frontline/World "Conflict Zones" Series, MAY 2009
Chakarova's multimedia piece explores a secret network of shelters for victims of rape, abuse and
reprisal killings six years after the US invasion.

Women's eNews featured Mimi Chakarova as "JOURNALIST OF THE MONTH," spotlighting her work on sex trafficking.

Inter Press Service reviews "The Price of Sex" multimedia series in WOMEN by Claudia Ciobanu

THE INVESTIGATORS: BEHIND THE VEIL, Center for Investigative Reporting
Lawlessness and sectarian violence quickly engulfed Iraq after the fall of Saddam, leaving women especially vulnerable.
Correspondents Anna Badkhen and Mimi Chakarova visited a secret women's shelter in Baghdad to document the stories
of rape victims and war widows.

THE PRICE OF SEX: WOMEN SPEAK Website Launch, Center for Investigative Reporting, MAY 2009
After six years of reporting on sex trafficking in Eastern Europe and parts of the Middle East, Mimi
Chakarova launches THE PRICE OF SEX – a multimedia series featuring interviews with young women
sold into prostitution against their will.

Inheritance of Loss, The National Newspaper, Abu Dhabi, MAY 2009
Anna Badkhen reports about Iraq’s widows struggle to survive. Photos by Mimi Chakarova

2008 NOMINEE FOR THE 29th ANNUAL NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY® AWARDS ANNOUNCED BY THE
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES, NEW APPROACHES TO NEWS & DOCUMENTARY
PROGRAMMING: ARTS, LIFESTYLE & CULTURE

2008 WEBBY AWARDS People's Voice Winner, Online Film & Video, News & Politics: Individual Episode
"Dubai: Night Secrets," reported and produced by Mimi Chakarova.

FRONTLINE/World's first launch of a new web series, flashPOINT, features "The Price of Sex."
Chakarova takes us to Moldova where she captures the lives of young women trafficked into the sex trade.
March 2007

FRONTLINE/World's Rough Cut video, "Night Secrets," was reported and produced by Mimi Chakarova.
It is an undercover story about prostitution in Dubai, which has come to be known as the Las Vegas of the
Persian Gulf. September 2007

CBS News' "60 Minutes" reports on Dubai in A Visit To Dubai Inc., featuring some of Chakarova's
photographs from "Night Secrets." October 14, 2007

Capitalism, God, and a Good Cigar: Cuba Enters the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Lydia Chávez; Photographs by Mimi Chakarova
Published by Duke University Press, Spring 2005

Kashmir
Photographs and Essays

Chronicling Conflict
AlterNet.org

India’s railway children
Christian Science Monitor, 2004

Moldova fights traffic in women for sex
San Francisco Chronicle, 2004

The Children of Chernobyl: Radiation Treatment
Cuba, 2002

Mental illness: Profiles
Oakland, California, 2000-present

Genital female circumcision
Ghana, Africa 2002

Humanities research project in Jamaica
West Indies 1998-2001

Living conditions in South Africa’s post-apartheid townships
2000-2001