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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...
Campbell Scott, Actor/Director, Becomes a Film Mentor
July 1, 2007
Actor and director, Campbell Scott agrees to be a Film Mentor in our second year. He says, “BYkids is a powerful and poignant idea. Film has always ...
Celebration Launches First Film Project
June 19, 2007
BYkids hosted a celebrity-studded cocktail party to introduce its first film project happening this August in Mozambique. Film mentors Neal Baer, Exec...
The Wall Street Journal Editor and Columnist, Alan Murray, Joins Board
May 1, 2007
Alan Murray is assistant managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, author of the paper's weekly Business column, and regular contributor to CNBC. He...
Hollywood Television Director, Neal Baer, Joins Board
March 14, 2007
Dr. Neal Baer, Executive Director of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, joins the BYkids Board and agrees to serve as a Film Mentor in Mozambique ...
First Foundation Grant Received From The Virginia Parker Foundation
February 20, 2007
The Canada-based Virginia Parker Foundation generously becomes the first foundation funder in support of international filmmaking....