RECENT FESTIVALS

Richmond International Film Festival (September 24-29, 2024)

BEEKEEPER is an Official Selection

SEEDS OF LIFE is a finalist

Breakthrough Miami (June 29, 2024)

BEEKEEPER screening

Palm Beach Chamber of Commerce Trustees Lunch (May 21, 2024)

BYkids presents to 80 Trustees

Fotografiska New York Screening Event (April 14, 2024)

BEEKEEPER and ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE screened with a discussion moderated by the former White House climate expert David Sandalow with BYkids Founder and Executive Director, Holly Carter.

Socially Relevant Film Festival New York (March 13, 2024)

BEEKEEPER won Best Documentary Short

SXSW EDU (March 6, 2024)

RETURN DATE: UNKNOWN screens at one of the largest national K-12 education events in the country and conversation with Tymur Tsapliienko (BYkids teen filmmaker), Holly Carter (BYkids Founder and Executive Director) and Sandy Goldberg (WNET, Director of Education).

Fotografiska New York Screening Event (February 28, 2024)

Following the screening of RETURN DATE: UNKNOWN and SEEDS OF LIFE there was a conversation with Holly Carter (BYkids) and Peter Lattman (Managing Director of Media at Emerson Collective and former journalist).

Japan Prize (November 2023)

RETURN DATE: UNKNOWN named finalist of the Japan Prize 2023.

Youth Collective Film Festival (June 7, 2023)

RETURN DATE: UNKNOWN won best documentary

United Nations Association of New York (June 15, 2023)

Private screening of RETURN DATE: UNKNOWN with a panel discussion including Tymur, Rom Barnea (his mentor), Holly Carter (BYkids executive director), Susan Bissell (Harvard FXB Center for Human Rights and former Global Chief of Child Protection at UNICEF) and Pablo Espiniella (Chief of Staff at the U.N. Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children).

WALK ON MY OWN won Best Youth Documentary Short at the Women’s Voices Now Festival in April 2023. FIRE IN OUR HEARTS also an official selection.

BYkids wins a silver Anthem Award for Best Education, Art & Culture in Film, Video and Television.

Women’s Voices Now Film Festival (March 24, 2023)

FIRE IN OUR HEARTS was selected for the festival

WALK ON MY OWN won Best Youth Documentary Short

International Youth Film Festival at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights – Atlanta (October 27, 2022)

L’CHAIM and I COULD TELL YOU ‘BOUT MY LIFE were screened

Portland Film Festival (October 12-23, 2022)

AGAINST THE CURRENT was selected for the festival

MY HERO Film Festival in LA (November 19, 2022)

The trailers of WALK ON MY OWN and I COULD TELL YOU ‘BOUT MY LIFE were selected

I COULD TELL YOU ‘BOUT MY LIFE tied for 1st place

WALK ON MY OWN won 2nd place – Women’s Rights

Chicago International Children’s Film Festival (November 4-20, 2022)

FAITH’S WORLD was selected, and won 2nd Prize Best Documentary Short Film, Youth Jury

UN Association Film Festival (September 21, 2022)

FAITH’S WORLD showed at MoMA as part of the festival, followed by a panel

Science Film Festival (Oct. 1 to Dec. 20, 2022)

FAITH’S WORLD, FIRE IN OUR HEARTS and I COULD TELL YOU ‘BOUT MY LIFE are touring with this traveling film festival to Bangladesh, India, Iran, Kenya, Malaysia, Mali, Pakistan, Singapore and Vietnam.

MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS

Assembly

Assembly — the digital publication of the Malala Fund — features Faith Guilbault, director of FAITH’S WORLD. Read article

Discovery Education

Discovey Education, our longstanding distribution partner, launches a new BYkids channel.

PBS Metro Focus

Primetime feature about BYkids, the WNET partnership and the four films of season three. Watch video

Education Week

The article “Teaching Empathy Through Documentary Films” by Holly Carter & Zoe Barnstone-Clark published in this education journal. Read article

WNET / THIRTEEN

WNET / THIRTEEN includes seven BYkids films in their “Gen Z Life in Documentaries and Dramas” showcase.

The New York Times

BYkids featured in 2014. Read article

RECOGNITION FOR BYKIDS

(2024) Webby Awards Honoree for General Video-Student for Video for BYkids Season Four

(2022) BYkids wins TWO Anthem Awards honoring our long-lasting impact and recognizing the breadth of our social good work around the world. BYkids won Silver in two categories for non-profits in Education, Art & Culture: Best Strategy and Best Campaign.

(2022) BYkids is invited to participate in TEDWomen, Bard College Civic Engagement Program, the WNET Youth Summit, the Aspen Ideas Festival and the Opportunity Collaboration.

(2021) BYkids is selected as one of the most impactful and scalable innovations in the world by global education non-profit HundrED. HundrED, a Finnish education non-profit, chose BYkids as part of the 2022 Global Collection that highlights 100 leading global innovations in K-12 education.

(2021) Holly Carter, founder and Executive Director of BYkids, was awarded the Global Media Educator Award at The MY HERO International Film Festival

(2021) The Japan Prize selected FAITH’S WORLD for its International Contest for Educational Media and showcased the film in a special program, “How Is Media Communicating Diversity to Children?”

AWARDS FOR BYKIDS FILMS

Our 13 films have won countless film festival awards and recognition including: