Galen Films Productions

Interviews and film clips re-create the glorious history of the American western.

Narrated by Meryl Streep and filmed in eight countries, Stolen Childhoods is the story of 246 million children for whom life is nothing but work. Children are found working in dumps, quarries and 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. The film features stories of child laborers around the world, told in their own words, while placing their stories in the broader context of the worldwide struggle against child labor, how it contributes to global insecurity, while featuring best practice programs to improve their lives by giving them the chance of making a reasonable living when they grow up. Ultimately, the film challenges the viewer to help break the cycle of poverty for the 246 million children laboring at the bottom of the global economy.

A German Film Award winning short feature.

For the last 30 years, filmmaker Len Morris has been filming stories about children on every continent and across the US and observing the changes that have occured for better or worse in children's human rights. Butterfly, Butterfly shows footage that hasn't been seen by the public before and is a measure of the gains made through advocacy–a snapshot of how we treat children as a society, a look at the future. This film is a personal salute to the beauty and resilience of children.