BYkids currently has three films completed, one in post-production (Colombia) and one (United States) in pre-production. With the help of expert mentors, kids around the world tell their own stories, in their own words, through documentary film. Come see the world through their eyes.
Mozambique
Home Is Where You Find It
Two film luminaries help 16-year-old, Alcides Soares, make a short film about his life as an AIDS orphan in Maputo, Mozambique. One of the 500,000 Mozambican kids who lost both parents to AIDS, Alcides's documentary about finding family is both intimate and inspiring.
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Tibet
My Country Is Tibet
The 17-year-old exiled King of Tibet tells his rare, personal and timely story.
Namgyal Wangchuk Trichen Lhagyari is the only living descendent of Songtsen Gampo, the first Dharma King of Tibet (617-698 AD). Namgyal Wangchuk represents his long lineage after being coronated a Tibetan King by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama in exile five years ago. He is part of a generation of young Tibetans struggling to retain their traditional culture in the face of persecution.
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India
Fire in Our Hearts
Jayshree Janu Kharpade of India aged 15 illuminates the immense social and economic potential of educating girls in the developing world. Jayshree's film mentor is the renowned Joyce Chopra, a pioneer of documentary cinema. Joyce, and a second camerawoman, Cat Papadimitriou, spent January 2011 in India.
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Colombia
María Ceballos Paz, a 16-year-old girl, is one of the estimated four million Colombians driven from their homes by decades of civil war. Now living in the slums of Cali, she intimately brings us into her world. Through her lens and mentored by Hollywood television producer, Susan Hoenig, María puts a human face on the cost of civil war and the drug trade.
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