Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story is a documentary film produced by Daniel H. Birman Productions, Inc. and was shown on the renown documentary series on PBS, Independent Lens, and was also circulated for public screenings nationwide as part of their Community Cinema outreach program. The film was widely distributed to several countries, including the U.K., where it aired on the BBC. The story is about Cyntoia Brown having been sentenced to life for killing Johnny Allen, a 43-year-old man. Brown had been forced into prostitution by her abusive boyfriend and claimed that she was afraid that she was going to be killed by Allen. It premiered on PBS's Independent Lens series on March 1, 2011.