As the blog has been covering street children, it seems quite appropriate that I discovered the showing of a film this evening about a boy living in the slums of Kenya. Tonight as part of the Guerrilla Film Fest, you can see the film, “I Want To Be A Pilot”. The film is about a young boy, 12 year old Omondi, who lives in the biggest slum in East Africa, Kiberia, Kenya. Every day Omondi sees airplanes fly over his home and he dreams that one day he will become a pilot of one of those planes, so he can escape his life in the slums.
The film has won the 2007 Cleveland International Film Festival, for Best Documentary Short Film and the 2006 Sao Paulo International Film Festival, Audience Award, for Best Foreign Short Film.
The film is being shown at the Carnegie Institution at 9:15, tickets are $11 and includes admission to all Film Shorts on Saturday.
Check it out if you can!
