Foster Care Film (FCFCEP)

A half-hour documentary film which celebrates foster youth, showing how school, extended-family and the kindness of strangers can help a child find their path in life. This film highlights the stories of two young women, Charell and Camilla, who end up in the NYC foster care system as youth but refu...

In this award-winning collection, Charell, Ashley and Camilla are former foster youth sharing their deeply personal stories about their experiences in foster care. Foster Care Film Series: Volume 1 celebrates the perseverance of these narratives, dispelling the negative stereo-types about foster ...

Despite battling Cystic Fibrosis, Camilla, age 16, identified as a typical middle-class American teenager until the thread that held her family together suddenly snapped. Just months before her 18th birthday Camilla found herself in foster care, but instead of being ashamed, she made a conscious ...

Charell, age 6, woke up to find herself alone. She made breakfast, dropped her baby sister off with a neighbor, and walked to school. With a dad incarcerated for murder, a mom on drugs & a childhood in foster care, Charell knew it was time to break the cycle.

Ashley, a young Native-American Caucasian girl, converts to Islam in hopes of finding structure in a life where it never existed, but with that decision comes the risk of losing one of the few biological connections she still has. "My Identity" tells the story of how race, religion, and family he...