New film highlights plight of world’s poor children - UN
A new film being shown at the 62nd Venice Biennale Film Festival puts the spotlight on the problems of illiteracy, hunger, exploitation and, sometimes, being caught up in wars now faced by the world’s millions of poor children, United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today.
A new film being shown at the 62nd Venice Biennale Film Festival puts the spotlight on the problems of illiteracy, hunger, exploitation and, sometimes, being caught up in wars now faced by the world’s millions of poor children, United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today.
The film, “All the Invisible Children,” tells the stories of “faceless, nameless childhood” and is the product of an initiative supported by the Italian Development Cooperation Ministry of Foreign Affairs in favour of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and WFP.
The project was put together by eight major directors – Medhi Charef, Emir Kusturica, Spike Lee, Katia Lund, Jordan Scott and Ridley Scott, Stefano Veneruso and John Woo -- with performances by Tina Turner and composer Elisa, WFP said.
It said the film would also support a project “in favor of children and designed to fight child malnutrition in Africa.”