For every person who dedicates their life to a cause, their family makes a collective sacrifice.For every person who dedicates their life to a cause, their family makes a collective sacrifice.For every person who dedicates their life to a cause, their family makes a collective sacrifice.
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- TriviaWinner Best Human Spirit Documentary Award at Chagrin Documentary Festival.
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Dina Rosenmeier: I regret how desensitized the western world has become.There are an estimated 300 million illiterate people in India alone.
Dina Rosenmeier: The situation is so daunting that it often causes us to hide behind the gratuitous excuse of its enormity and the wrong doings of a few fraudulent aid organizations.
Dina Rosenmeier: I believe that if each of us makes even the smallest contribution to help educate a child, we will collectively make a difference.
The underlying story is that of the narrator, Dina Rosenmeier, who is retracing her mother's footsteps in an attempt to understand how and why her mother could leave her as a small child in favor of the work she was doing. This is clearly something Ms. Rosenmeier has struggled with. What she finds is that she too is compelled to help this cause, and in so doing finds a new and profound bond based in understanding with her mother.
What the viewer is left with is perhaps an even more important message. The kind of message organizations like Save the Children hit you over the head with, but Ms. Rosenmeier skillfully presents and let's you come to on your own. It's a powerful message that these children needlessly suffer and can be helped (not to be trite) for the price of a cup of coffee, and that indeed all of this suffering could be prevented with proper education - again a small price to pay for the truly global good it could do us all.
A thoughtful and layered film. Impressive as Ms. Rosenmeier's first attempt at both writer and director.
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- Dec 6, 2011
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- Runtime1 hour 17 minutes
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