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- "Changing the World on Vacation" is a social impact documentary that explores the controversial trend "Volun-tourism" (the merger of adventure travel and aid work) by following an American grassroots NGO in Cambodia that built a school for 540 children in a rural village and financially sustains this project through volunteer-travelers. With intimate access to the president of the grassroots NGO, the film uncovers the personal and political potholes that stand in the way of doing aid work responsibly and joins three groups of volunteers on their trips to Cambodia, contrasting the life-changing effects of their own journey and their impact for the local communities. The film furthers an inclusive dialogue for more sustainable aid practices, highlighting the potential and dangers of Volun-tourism (the largest growing segment in the tourism and non-profit industry) and is a catalyst for discussion that raises crucial questions about the nature of giving and our individual potential to be activists for change.
- Where the Robot Things Are is a love story between a rat and a robot who connect after they are sent to find a path through a land mine field to save a group of people have been trapped, run out of water, and driven mad. The film was created with the philosophy in mind of utilizing emerging and existing technologies in the story to inspire engineering minds to work on solutions to the plight of land mines that are a persistent and lethal threat to untold millions of civilians around the world. In the process of making the movie, the director partnered up with prominent roboticists and the moral vision of the technology (enabling a land mine-sniffing rat to be able to communicate to a human when it finds a land mine) is on its way to fruition with prototype field tests scheduled in Tanzania this June.
- The important tradition of Islamic education in Senegal has been left to develop in disturbingly perverted ways. 50.000 Koranic students (Talibes), young boys between 4 and 15 years old are subjected to exploitation in conditions akin to slavery. They are forced to beg on the streets by their Koranic schoolteachers and suffer severe physical abuse and neglect. Following the staff of local grassroots NGO 'La Maison de la Gare' (MDG) during their daily efforts to find solutions for the terrible conditions the boys are subjected to, the documentary sets out on a poetic exploration of the nature and circumstances that breed and prolong the suffering of these children.