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Collegiate High School Students Captivated
October 5, 2009
Griffin Adams, a member of the Junior Board and a senior at the Collegiate School in New York, assembled 250 Collegiate high school students for a scr...
Film Continues on the International Festival Circuit
August 22, 2009
HOME IS WHERE YOU FIND IT screens in Berlin at the Globian DocFest and is chosen for the Manhattan Short Film Festival, the New Orleans Film Festival ...
Film Garners Awards at Major Festivals
July 22, 2009
HOME IS WHERE YOU FIND IT wins first place Directorial Discovery Award at the Rhode Island International Film Festival and best Documentary Short at D...
First BYkids Film Premieres at SilverDocs
June 22, 2009
HOME IS WHERE YOU FIND IT premieres at SilverDocs and Human Rights Watch Film Festival in New York with Alcides Soares, our young director from Mozamb...
2009 Gala Screening and Benefit is Huge Success
May 22, 2009
The BYkids gala benefit - hosted by TODAY show anchor, Natalie Morales - is a resounding success and raises over $55,000 toward the third BYkids film ...
Film Mentor Returns to India to Help King Finish his Film
March 22, 2009
BYkids Film Mentor, Dirk Simon, returns to India to continue helping Namgyal, the exiled King of Tibet, tell his incredible story. Namgyal narrates MY...
Notes from the Field: HOME IS WHERE YOU FIND IT
March 16, 2009
I am writing this somewhere over the Atlantic, as I fly the first leg of my journey to Maputo. This will be my first blogging experience, one that I a...
Alcides Soares Narrates His Own Film BYkids: Mozambique
February 16, 2009
New Board Chair and Film Mentor Neal Baer arranges to have Alcides Soares spend three weeks studying English before his voice-over work in the Henry M...
Junior Committee Begins Planning for 2009 Benefit
February 16, 2009
The BYkids Junior Committee, led by 18-year-old Committee Chair Sophie Bressler, begins planning for the second BYkids annual benefit to be held at th...
The BYkids Story Presented As A Case Study at MIT
January 16, 2009
Top web designers from Razorfish chose BYkids as the nonprofit venture to feature in an "Experiencing Design" course taught to undergraduates at MIT. ...