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Exiled King of Tibet Making BYkids' Second Film
March 15, 2008
Award-winning filmmaker, Dirk Simon, has been in Dharamsala, India mentoring the 16-year-old, exiled King of Tibet in the art of filmmaking. Namgyal W...
Notes from the Field: MY COUNTRY IS TIBET
March 11, 2008
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
posted by Dirk
This will be an incredible experience.
I met Namgyal Wangchuk for the first time at his coronatio...
Echoing Green Announces Semifinalists
February 10, 2008
BYkids is named a semifinalist in the 2008 Echoing Green fellowship competition out of 1,500 applications....
A Family is Reunited
January 25, 2008
Through BYkids, Alcides Soares finds his 13-year-old brother with whom he lost all contact ten years ago when their parents divorced. A BYkids camera ...
The Exiled King of Tibet to Make BYkids Film
December 25, 2007
BYkids wins three major foundation grants totaling $45,000. Additional grass roots funding enables the second BYkids film – the exiled King of Tibet...
Tribeca Film Festival to Premiere Films
December 12, 2007
Peter Scarlet, Executive Director of the Tribeca Film Festival, agrees to premiere final films in the festival to a large and committed New York audie...
Celebrity Fashion Show Organized by Teens
November 25, 2007
Teens For BYkids, a youth-organized BYkids development program, is launched. High school junior Sophie Bressler initiates planning for a fundraising d...
NBC Universal to Support BYkids
October 25, 2007
Board member Alan Murray, Executive Editor of The Wall Street Journal Online, hosts a fundraiser for 40 BYkids supporters. At the event, BYkids Founde...
Alcides - “Little Oprah”
August 15, 2007
We had a great day again. We call Alcides "Little Oprah," because he shoots interviews at first behind the camera, then pulls up a chair and talks to ...
BYkids Goes to Mozambique for First Film Project
August 5, 2007
Neal Baer (Executive Producer of Law & Order: SVU) and Chris Zalla (2007 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner) leave for Mozambique to teach 16-year-old A...