County Lines, commissioned by Lancashire Police (UK)
Work in Progress. Some rough drafts of frames for short animation addressing coercive grooming of young teens and pre-teens to sell illegal substances by organised city drug gangs setting up 'lines' into regional cities, towns, and rural communities. The child is initially given gifts, then increasingly controlled by fear. The animation is part of a rehab programme devised with and by young people who have wound up in the criminal justice system as a result of coercion.
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