Baltimore Women's Film Festival 2008

Filmmaker to be in attendance

WHAT I SEE WHEN I CLOSE MY EYES is a clear-eyed look at how Phnom Penh's street children are being helped by Mith Samlanh/FRIENDS-INTERNATIONAL, an organization serving street living and working kids through the provision of vocational training, shelter, food, education, counseling, art classes and outreach. The children of FRIENDS tell their stories in their own voice in answer to the simplest of statements: What's My Name, How I Live, What I Want and Who I Am.

Much of the film is told through the progress of the creation of life-sized self-portraits the children draw of themselves in answer to the question, 'What do you see when you close your eyes?'