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We got a lovely review from Bethany Jean Clement at the Seattle Film Festival:
What is more adorable than sixth-grade pen pals? INTERNATIONAL sixth-grade pen pals, half of whom are orphans. Prepare your heartstrings for some major tugging: This documentary documents a group of sixth-graders in Bed-Stuy Brooklyn pen-palling with a group of parentless sixth-graders in war-ravaged Sierra Leone. They wonder: Is it true that in New York the whole house has light anytime, night or day? Do they skateboard in Sierra Leone? The children learn things about each other's lives and—yes—their own. Watching them read each other's letters is fantastic.
There are several other SIFF reviews here.
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