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BYkids Panel on Borders and Immigration Chosen for Sxsw Edu
October 24, 2019
We are thrilled to be part of SXSW EDU 2020! Discussion between our panelists and clips from BYkids’ PBS documentary, OUT OF ALEPPO, will demonstrate ...
BYkids Attends the Opportunity Collaboration Conference
October 23, 2019
BYkids is lucky to spend a week with social impact leaders from over 50 countries at the Opportunity Collaboration 2019. This global network of leader...
"I Could Tell You 'bout My Life Official Selection at the Nashville Film Festival
October 6, 2019
Congratulations to Mike Martin and his mentor, Hollis Meminger. The Nashville Film Festival audience loved I COULD TELL YOU 'BOUT MY LIFE and we had a...
Announcing the new BYkids JUNIOR BOARD
September 24, 2019
The new BYkids Junior Board is hard at work strategizing ways to support our work through Events, Social Media, Fundraising, Partnerships and Educatio...
Working on Season Three of Films BYkids
September 7, 2019
We are hard at work on four new films on disability, antisemitism, Native American culture and globalization in Bhutan. Here is mentor Evan Mascagni w...
Malala Supports Our Senegal Film and the Filmmaker, Ndèye Fatou Fall
August 6, 2019
In WALK ON MY OWN, a 16-year-old filmmaker documents the history of Keur Simbara — one of the first villages in Senegal to abandon female genital cutt...
Education Week Features BYkids
July 1, 2019
BYkids is featured in Education Week’s blog, Opinion: Global Learning, in an article titled “Teaching Empathy Through Documentary Films.” Written by H...
United Nations Association Hosts Screening of "Out of Aleppo"
June 12, 2019
Thank you to the United Nations Association of New York for hosting a screening of OUT OF ALEPPO at the Dolby Screening Room. The screening was follow...
Roadmaps Festival Hosts Screening of “Out of Aleppo”
May 20, 2019
OUT OF ALEPPO is screened at the 2019 Roadmaps Festival at Lincoln Center, followed by the panel "Innovations in Education as Response to Conflict,” m...
Wnet Youth Collective Summit Hosts Screening of "Poet Against Prejudice"
May 20, 2019
POET AGAINST PREJUDICE is screened as a part of the WNET Youth Collective Summit 2019 at the Paley Center for Media. In this short film, Faiza Almonta...