Butterfly Butterfly

How are we treating the world’s children?
Over three decades of filming across the globe, this deeply personal documentary (2022) asks whether we've lived up to our promises to children: access to food, healthcare, education, safety, clean water, and equality.

Drawing from thousands of hours of footage by Len Morris and his crew, the film reflects on both progress and setbacks in honoring the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, the most widely ratified human rights document in history. Have we kept our word?

Children of Bal Ashram

This inspiring film (2019) follows Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi and his wife, Sumedha Kailash, as they dedicate their lives to ending child labor. Together, they’ve rescued thousands of children from forced labor and built Bal Ashram, a refuge where healing begins, childhood is restored, and future leaders are raised to carry the fight forward to prevent human exploitation.

“The most powerful voice is the voice of a victim, a survivor. A child.”

The Same Heart

Nearly one billion children live in poverty, while development aid continues to fall short. This film explores a bold question: What if the funding model were reimagined, so the United Nations no longer had to rely on uncertain pledges or appeal for support, but instead had a sustainable, structured mechanism to deliver real change?

What if, instead of reacting to the emergency with appeals to sentiment, the world community saw a dignified life as something every human being has a right to? What if a small tax on financial transactions could create a steady fund to provide a dignified life for the most vulnerable? What if we had the same heart for all children, not just our own?

Stolen Childhoods

The first in a trilogy of films about children's human rights, Stolen Childhoods is the first feature documentary on global child labor ever produced. The film features stories of child laborers around the world, told in their own words. Children are shown working in dumps, quarries, and brick kilns.

The film places these children's stories in the broader context of the worldwide struggle against child labor. Stolen Childhoods provides an understanding of the causes of child labor, what it costs, what we must do to eliminate it. (2005)

Narrated by Meryl Streep.