We are happy to announce that Mozambican teenager Alcides Soares' documentary short about being orphaned by AIDS has been accepted in to four festivals this year: AFI Silver Docs (Washington, D.C.), Human Rights Watch Film Festival (New York), Globians (Berlin), and Rhode Island International Film Festival. Produced by ByKids, with the collaboration and support of Venice Arts, the film was shot in Mozambique in 2007 during The House Is Small But The Welcome Is Big: Mozambique.
Click on the 4-minute trailer to this moving documentary short, which includes many of the beautiful photographs on this website. It tells the story of Alcides and his friends as they come to terms with the loss of their parents and seek to create new family bonds-sometimes with other children, sometimes with caring adults willing to take them in.
See additional clips from the film and learn how to Take Action at takepart.com
Posted 6:18PM on Tuesday, June 09, 2009 Pacific Time Mexico City is being added to the list of exhibition venues for 2009. I recently received confirmation that the Enkidu Annual Humanities Summer Conference will display the project's images during conference proceedings. The theme of this year's conference, according to its organizers, is to "interrogate storytelling, memories and identity constructions from a wide range of perspectives, and in their manifold cultural and social manifestations." The nature of the conference is global, with presenters hailing from around the world. In addition to accompanying the House is Small exhibit, I am presenting on two topics, including a paper entitled, "Re-visioning the myths of poverty and oppression through first-person practices of participant produced photojournalism." The proceedings take place in the National Human Rights Commission of Mexico.
Posted 7:37AM on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 Pacific Time UNICEF has provided a few photos of the exhibition space in Maputo. They've been posted on the Venice Arts Flickr page
Photo exhibition in Mozambique shows impact of AIDS through the eyes of children
Posted 7:34AM on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 Pacific Time Last year, 21 children aged 11 through 17 took to the streets of Maputo with cameras to document their lives and their communities. Over the course of two weeks, with help from a team of professional photographers, they opened the doors of their homes and learned how to tell their stories through the camera's lens. (Click here to continue reading entire article posted at UNICEF website.)
