Daring to Dream

Documentary filmmaker Duco Tellegen is passionate about his craft and in particular, has explored young people at critical moments of change. His film “Living Rights” looks at the dilemmas facing three children on three different continents. In Japan, a young boy with Aspergers Syndrome (inset caption picture) dreams of attending a regular school. In Kenya, a Maasai teenager (pictured above with her father) decides to run away from family traditions to find an education. And in the Chernobyl fallout area, a girl struggling with her health has to choose between her family and adoption. Here, film director Tellegen talks about these powerful stories, in which he seems to have been immersed as producer, cameraman and sound technician.

Interwoven into the conversation with Duco Tellegen, are the perspectives of two others. Joseph Masindet, running the UK based organisation “Friends of the Maasai”, is an authority on the Maasai community and speaks about the traditions of his people and the concerning issue of land rights. And Linda Walker shares her concerns for the children affected by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster and tells how the Chernobyl Children’s Project is able to make a difference in dealing with the consequences.

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