Set to be released on June 24 at the Coolidge Corner Theater, the film Stolen Childhoods is:

The first feature documentary on global child labor ever produced. The film features stories of child laborers around the world, told in their own words. Children are shown working in dumps, quarries, brick kilns. One boy has been pressed into forced labor on a fishing platform in the Sea of Sumatra, a fifteen-year-old runaway describes being forced into prostitution on the streets of Mexico City, while a nine-year-old girl picks coffee in Kenya to help her family survive.

Directed by Len Morris, Stolen Childhoods addresses child labor globally in eight different countries, proliferating a broader understanding of the detriments of child labor to the global economy and the individual futures of these children.

The film won “Best Feature for Children’s Advocacy” at the 2005 Artivist Film Festival in Los Angeles.