Dreamcatcher

DREAMCATCHER is a breathtakingly raw look at the work of a former prostitute whose Chicago charity helps women leave the sex industry. Brenda Myers-Powell has a big personality to match her big heart. She cruises the streets at night in her Dreamcatcher Foundation van, distributing condoms. Often she stops to talk to prostitutes, every one with a devastating story. In her after-school club for at-risk teenage girls, the kids exchange horrifying rape stories over Doritos and Coke. Education, empowerment, and prevention are the bywords of this brave soul, who admits to abandoning her own daughters. Her new business is giving hope to forgotten women – and hope is what they need. The story of Brenda’s work, which has changed so many lives, will change yours, too. – B.B.