The Right Track

The Right Track is a compelling documentary that highlights the ongoing battle to eradicate sex trafficking and human exploitation in the United States. Central to this effort is the push to implement the Survivor Model—a groundbreaking strategy that decriminalizes those who are prostituted while enforcing stringent penalties on pimps, traffickers, and sex buyers who fuel the commercial sex industry.

Featuring powerful stories from survivors, advocates, policymakers, and law enforcement, the film delves deeply into the crisis, showcasing the bravery required for survivors to leave “the life” and rebuild, whether away from the track or outside the brothel system. It examines what is necessary to bring traffickers and buyers to justice and illustrates how trafficking flourishes not only in distant locations but also within our own communities. The Right Track serves as both a call to action and a tribute to the resilience of survivors striving for change.

Shareen Anderson is an acclaimed producer, director, and showrunner based in New York City. She has developed and produced a diverse array of documentary films and series for networks such as A&E, PBS, Netflix, CNN, Al Jazeera English, Food Network, Travel Channel, Channel 4 UK, Oxygen, Lifetime, National Geographic, and Discovery.

She created and executive produced "The Murder of Laci Peterson", a six-part limited documentary series for A&E, which won a silver medal at New York Festivals International Television and Film Awards. She also created and executive produced "Saving Soweto", an eight-part documentary series for Al Jazeera English, which earned a bronze medal at the same awards. "Return To The USS Atlanta", which she directed and produced, received a Spirit of Independents Award at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival and was featured on Netflix and PBS. Her debut feature documentary, Charents: In Search of My Armenian Poet, won the Audience Choice Award at the Pomegranate Film Festival in Toronto, Canada. Other past projects she has created, directed, and produced include the four-part documentary series "A Different Country" for ETV South Africa, "Forgotten Freedom Fighters", a documentary film for Al Jazeera English, and "These Streets Belong To Us", which screened at various international film festivals and aired on MNet Africa. As a freelance supervising producer, her recent credits include "To Catch A Smuggler" for National Geographic and "The Shadows of Death" and "Suspicious Minds" for Investigation Discovery.

She co-founded the annual Jozi Film Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2011 and served as a festival director until 2015. In 2017, she established the annual Mystic Film Festival in Mystic, Connecticut and currently serves as the festival director. She graduated from St. Petersburg State University, Russia with an M.A. in Russian Language and Literature, and from Washington State University with a B.A. in French and Russian.