Screening of KIDS WITH CAMERAS
When: October 15, 6 PM
Where: Room A51, Humanities building, UCLA Campus

KIDS WITH CAMERAS is an hour-long documentary that chronicles the challenges of seven Asperger Syndrome-afflicted children aged eleven to nineteen, on the road to self-discovery. As they engage in an intensive, week-long film camp taught by nationally acclaimed, award-winning educator Brad Koepenick in Southern California, footage of this all-immersive, ciné vérité week of activities is combined with revealing moments of the children’s private lives, and candid interviews with their families as they explore and explain their coping strategies. These brilliant artists’s efforts of self-expression - films, songs, poems, and paintings - combine to paint a soulful picture of how encouraging and training their creativity might be a necessary step to connecting the exponentially increasing autistic population with the rest of the world. To anyone who's ever felt isolated or misunderstood, this is a testimony to the healing power of art.

Sponsors
Center for European and Eurasian Studies, UCLA, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UCLA, The Romanian Club, UCLA

• Some of the principal members of the crew and cast, including the original "kids with cameras" will be present.
• Director Alex Rotaru will discuss the documentary, as well as film-making in Romania and the US in general, in a special Q & A after the screening.
• DVDs will available.
• Please RSVP by October 11 by sending an email to: romclubucla@gmail.com