- Place of Birth
- Logroño, La Rioja, Spain
Chelo Alvarez-Stehle
ProductionBiography
As a reporter, documentary filmmaker and advocate, Chelo has worked for close to two decades exposing stories of sexual exploitation and trafficking. Born in Spain, she worked in Japan in documentaries for NHK Enterprises and became Tokyo’s and then Los Angeles’ correspondent for Spain’s El Mundo daily. In 1995, she moved to California and in 2002, Canal+ Spain turned her first reportage on child trafficking in the Himalayas into the documentary film Tin Girls. Chelo produced/directed several short documentaries, among them, Sold in America: A Modern-Day Tale of Sex Slavery, and, most recentl...
