This daylong program of documentaries about the rights of children, selected from the United Nations Association’s annual touring film festival, takes place Saturday, November 19, from 9 AM to 5 PM at Columbia College Ludington Bldg., 1104 S. Wabash. Suggested donation is $10 per half-day session; admission is free for Columbia College students. For more information call 312-344-6732.
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Andrea Gronvall has called Len Morris and Robin Romano’s Stolen Childhoods (2004, 85 min.) “a painstaking investigation into modern child labor” that “packs a wallop through its sheer volume of facts. It’s nearly inconceivable that 246 million children worldwide toil long days under hazardous conditions, but a small army of experts and activists–including U.S. senator Tom Harkin and Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai–deliver harrowing eyewitness accounts of such enslavement. Positive solutions are illustrated in case studies of partnerships between governments, foundations, and communities to keep children in school, but hope also lies in the fair trade movement that monitors who’s picking our coffee beans and weaving our Oriental carpets” (11:45 AM).
