Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest Film Festival selection.This work was created over three weeks as part of the Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest and premiered March 7, 2009 at a special screening at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, CA.
Kiné, a young Senegalese girl, is sent to the city to work as a maid in order to support her family back home. When her employers begin to abuse her, who is there to protect her?
This project is a short stop motion film about the concepts of individuality and its impact on community. The project gives viewers pause to consider how their personal individuality works in connection with everyone around them to form community.
16 year-old David Were lives in Kibera, Africa’s largest slum on the outskirts of Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi. Basic facilities like the bathroom become an enormous chore as the family uses buckets and plastic bags to dispose of human waste. The b…