The emergence of the film

In 1998, Jacco Groen visits the Philippines to research a documentary. There, he meets Lilet in a psychiatric institution. Lilet is a child prostitute. Because she is part Western-part Filipina, she is a very popular child prostitute amongst Western pedophiles. Lilet tells Jacco that she has tried to commit suicide: “Everyone is only interested in my body and no one is interested in me as a person”. Later on, when Jacco tries to contact Lilet again, she is nowhere to be found. Lost without a trace. Deeply moved by Lilet’s story, Jacco decides to write a script for a feature film called “Lilet Never Happened”. With the film he wants to raise awareness for the problem of child prostitution and the crime that comes with it.

THE PRODUCERS

PRODUCER | Jacco Groen

Jacco Groen, owner of Springfilm, is writer-director and producer of many documentaries and drama productions. As writer-director he received nominations and awards at several film festivals such as Berlin, Santiago and LA. More than twenty of his human-interest documentaries were shown by Dutch broadcasters, like NPS, NCRV and Net5.

PRODUCER | Jamillah van der Hulst

Jamillah van der Hulst has worked for multiple humanitarian organizations and is owner of film production company JaJa Film Productions and sports management agency World of Sport.

PRODUCTION HOUSES

24FPS FEATURES

24FPS features was founded in 2001 by Anton Scholten. Movies produced by 24FPS features are "De Passievrucht" and "The bird can't fly".

WITSENBURG FILM PRODUCTIONS

Witsenburg Film Productions was founded in 2011 by Martien witsenburg. He is also the director and owner of Witsenburg Natural Products and he was always interested in others their wellbeing. Especially of those who almost own hardly anything or nothing at all. Even no prospects. That's why he became involved with this movie and founded Witsenburg Film Productions.

F&ME

Film and Music Entertainment is one of the UK’s most successful and prolific independent production companies. It was formed by Mike Downey and Sam Taylor in January 2000 with the aim of financing and producing feature films. So far F&ME has (co) produced over 30 films.

Executive Producer Phillippines

Eunice de Asis

Associate Producers

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER | Ellen van Slagmaat

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER | Natasja Swart