Hand Held

A photographer discovers a Pandemic of pediatric AIDS after visiting Romania and devotes his life to helping those chldren in need., Oscar nominee Don Hahn (Beauty and the Beast) conceived and shot this ambitious, sweeping documentary that begins in 1989. Just after the fall of the Iron Curtain, photojournalist Mike Carroll traveled to the former Soviet bloc country of Romania, where he discovered a Hell on Earth – stricken by dire poverty, widespread disease, and most troublingly, the presence of thousands upon thousands of Romanian war orphans – many of whom were dying of AIDS. In the months that followed, Carroll’s photographs began to appear in the Boston Globe and the New York Times, and therefore brought awareness of the Romanian crises to millions of Americans. Carroll himself found his life forever changed, as he embarked on a 20+ year journey to bring assistance to an entire generation of Romanian children.