January 4, 2008

NEWS / ARTICLES / ICDB: Iraqi children share their experience in film about friends separated by conflict

Iraqi children share their experience in film about friends separated
by conflict

*NEW YORK, USA, 3 January 2008 -- *Even amidst the security challenges
facing children in Iraq every day, a group of young people there have
found a way to create a poignant short film about life in Baghdad.

UNICEF and Spacetoon -- the regional Middle Eastern children's
television network -- gathered a group of Sunni and Shia'a children from
the Iraqi capital to create the film in conjunction with the
International Children's Day of Broadcasting.

The children discussed various ideas for stories and voted on the one
they wished to produce. The selected story line, based on one
participant's real experience, focuses on a boy in Iraq who loses his
friend when the friend's family is driven away by conflict.

FULL ARTICLE AT
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EGUA-7AHSRL?OpenDocument

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