About Ana

We have raised $139,000 of our $160,000 Production budget. We need your help to reach our goal!

• 2,000 children are killed or injured in war every day.

• It is estimated that over 300,000 children are fighting in active combat. This represents 10% of all combatants fighting in wars around the world.

Several organizations are in place helping to change the lives of child soldiers and war-affected children including WARCHILD, AMERICAN REFUGEE COMMITTEE, and INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS.

Public awareness is essential for organizations like these to continue the important work of stabilizing the lives of children who will one day become the adult population.

To that end, we are producing “Ana’s Playground”, a powerful short film which will directly examine children living and dying in a world of armed combat.

Ana’s Playground is an award winning short script that dramatizes the tragic effects of war as experienced by children while also spotlighting the connection that all children have with each other through play. In particular, their connection through the game of soccer. The film is intended to expose new audiences to the fact that children are being used as tools of war around the world.

In association with our not-for-profit fiscal sponsor the filmmakers are raising donations for the production. Once completed, screening rights to the film will be offered, free of charge, as an advocacy/fundraising tool to Non-Governmental-Organizations that aid in the disarmament, demobilization, and rehabilitation of child soldiers. These organizations include, but are not limited to:

• WAR CHILD
• RIGHT TO PLAY
• INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS
• THE COALITION TO STOP THE USE OF CHILD SOLDIERS

We hope the film influences viewers, programmers, and even those who simply hear of the project’s existence to put their efforts towards stopping the recruitment of children, punishing those who have used minors in armed conflicts, and removing and rehabilitating those children who have already been affected.
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“It would be enough if this {script} only sensitized viewers to the punishing reality of violence that children and youth regularly confront throughout the world . . . but Ana’s Playground expertly and movingly does much more: It instructs on their courage and resourcefulness, strengths that are poised to be used elsewhere in their lives - and will be by those fortunate enough to survive the senseless catastrophe of war.”

Brian K. Barber
Director, Center for the Study of Youth and Political Violence
The University of Tennessee