“Kami-sama” is a horror film in the tradition of Japanese classics like Onibaba and Kwaidan. Seven year-old Ayumi refuses to finish her dinner. So her parents try to scare her straight with the tale of the Kami-sama, a spirit that punishes spoiled children who don’t eat their food. But Ayumi[…]
In 2017 I followed the staff and social workers of Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation as they navigated the streets of Hanoi, Vietnam, looking for kids in crisis. Whether through force or simply being born into dangerous situations, these kids are robbed of a future and thrown down into a life[…]
Many have children tend to be abandoned by their young mothers. Many mothers pursue attention and popularity and sometimes pick up jobs like stripers and become sugarbabys. This is a short about a child left behind, taken care of and almost raised by many different babysitters. The child reaches a[…]
When an old man meets a young boy and a girl, both young musicians, he befriends them and invites them to his home, he is left with disappointment only to later realize these children help him let go of something that he had been holding onto for a long time.
A typical elementary school classroom. It’s mere minutes to the bell and the children anxiously await their escape from the drudgery of it all. However, an undercurrent of evil is brewing… And what happens next, could be anything but typical.
Basketball’s Dribble Man Saves 150 Children From Abuse, Child Labour & Poverty. Crowdfunding Campaign hopes to provide the children with basic needs of socks, milk, nutrition & shoes. Gheja is a tiny village near Noida in North India. I lived in the affluent and influential area of Noida which is[…]
Three children struggle to get 56 kg of rice: the cost of going to primary school in Soavinarivo, a small village in the Madagascar inland.
Anna contemplates a big decision while waiting for someone in a cafe. The movie was produced by Zen Design Studios and inspired by a documentary All About Mothers Inspired by a documentary exploring the relationship between mothers and their children (All About Mothers), and produced by Zen Design, Daniel Montanarini’s[…]
When a new stepfather moves in, Penelope escapes to a treehouse above the clouds. Penelope in The Threehouse is a film that reaches out to our childhood’s furthest imaginations, while sharing a rather real dilemma that many children are faced with in their young ages; having to deal with new[…]
Hursit lives with his mother and disabled brother in Cappadocia. He sees that what he has learned at the religious school is quite different from what is going on around him in real life. He realizes that the children can learn good values and tolerance while at the same time,[…]