05:24 PM PST on Wednesday, January 9, 2008
By PAT O'BRIEN
The Press-Enterprise
"Angels in the Dust," which screens today and Saturday at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, does more than tell a stunning story; it helps some of the most desperate children on the planet.
Producer James Egan, who lives in Palm Springs, said when he was asked to go to South Africa with documentary director Louise Hogarth, he didn't hesitate.
"I think I'm more than ever committed to helping these kids. One way is to get this film seen by as many people as possible. It makes the crisis very, very personal through these kids' voices, and it opens people's hearts to children, and I think we have that responsibility wherever we are in the world," he said.
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I think that whether through films like this one, or first hand experience in the field, these opportunities provide a window in which anyone of us can be exposed to the world of an Orphan. One can not truly make this observation and not be changed somehow for life.
Our upcoming trip to Zambia includes plans for acquiring the video footage required for producing a documentary about Zambian Orphans. Over 10% of the population of Zambia is Orphaned children, which includes nearly 100,000 children on the street. The population of Zambia is only 12 million.
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