Category: News

SCREENING OF HOME IS WHERE YOU FIND IT AT THE AMERICAN SCHOOL IN LONDON

May 15, 2017

Thank you to our BYkids Junior Committee member Alexandra Gers for organizing this event at The American School in London!

BYKIDS CELEBRATES EARTH DAY IN LOS ANGELES

April 8, 2017

A full-house audience helps BYkids celebrate Earth Day at a VIP sneak peak of our latest film, MY BEAUTIFUL NICARAGUA, at Soho House West Hollywood.

BYKIDS SCREENS MY BEAUTIFUL NICARAGUA AT THINK COFFEE IN NYC

March 21, 2017

Thank you to partner Think Coffee and Dalton students Emily Mei, Kyle Chu and Alexandra Milich, for organizing the screening and facilitating a conversation about climate change, sustainable agriculture and coffee.

MY BEAUTIFUL NICARAGUA IS OFFICIAL SELECTION AT THE SOCIALLY RELEVANT FILM FESTIVAL

March 17, 2017

We are honored to screen at The Socially Relevant Film Festival on Friday, March 17 in New York City.

POET AGAINST PREJUDICE PANEL AT SXSW

March 6, 2017

BYkids as a Tool for Global Understanding at SXSW Film Festival with Faiza Almontaser (BYkids filmmaker), Jamiel Altaheri (NYPD) Holly Carter (BYkids Founder) and Suzanne Rose (WNET producer of FILMS BYKIDS). Thank you to the audience member “This was the best thing I have experienced in my five years at SXSW!”

Program at SXSW

POET AGAINST PREJUDICE STREAMS IN FULL ON CBSN

March 6, 2017

Thank you to Faiza Almontaser for sharing your story in this beautiful and inspiring documentary and in a broadcast interview on CBS. CBSN is a great partner on this.

CBS Broadcast

COLORADO COLLEGE SCREENING OF TWO BYKIDS FILMS

February 23, 2017

12-year-old Edelsin Linette Mendez documents the challenges climate change brings to her family and their small coffee farm in the highlands of Nicaragua. 16-year-old María Ceballos Paz, one of millions of Colombians displaced due to national civil unrest and guerrilla forces, shows us her family, friends, and community as they attempt to rebuild their lives.

FAIZA ALMONTASER SHOWS US HER COURAGEOUS JOURNEY FROM VICTIM TO ACTIVIST

February 20, 2017

Faiza Almontaser tells her story of immigrating to the US from Yemen and how she learned to face discrimination and cope with bullies in an islamophobic, post 9/11 world.

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UN SCREENING OF OUR LATEST FILM, MY BEAUTIFUL NICARAGUA

February 9, 2017

Thank you to the UN Association of New York for hosting a screening of our latest BYkids film about young Edelsin Linette Mendez and her family’s battle with climate change.

ASHLEY JUDD IS THE SEASON ONE NARRATOR

January 22, 2017

We are honored to present Ashley Judd as the voice for Season One of FILMS BYKIDS on Public Television!