singalong with Iraqi kids

Director Franny Armstrong (left) and Producer Lizzie Gillett (right) singing La Bamba with a group of Iraqi refugee children. The filmmakers took them for a day trip to the dead sea and because the kids couldn't speak English and the filmmakers couldn't speak Arabic they communicated through shared songs; La Bamba and Eminem were the common ground.

They also set up a scheme where western donors paid the school fees for Iraqi refugees living in Jordan and helped 131 kids go to school.

Date: August 2007
Location: The Dead Sea, Jordan
Copyright: Spanner Films
Credit: Spanner Films
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