Countdown to Sarasota

Just nine days and counting until Brownstones screens at SFF! Check out the festival’s preview of Brownstones on its blog, The Insider:

Imagine you’re a kid from the projects in Brooklyn. Do you think you would have much in common with an orphan your age from the civil war-ravaged Sierra Leone?

What if it turned out that you did? And the bond you share is that no one gives either of you a chance. Then you learn that even if you can’t count on the outside world, you can count on each other!

That’s the premise of a wonderfully engaging documentary about a pen pal program between a group of youths in Bed-Stey and Sierra Leone...read more.