Rohingya – Space on Earth
Award: Wood Pencil
Wood Pencil / Branded Content & Entertainment / Non-Fiction Film up to 5 mins / 2019
The Rohingya are a minority community living in Myanmar that have been persecuted for centuries by the majority
In 2017 things escalated and a million were forced to flee their villages by the army to seek refuge in Bangladesh
500,000 were children
The UN described it as Genocide, a text book example of ethnic cleansing.
But with everything else happening on the world stage in 2017 the crisis was failing to get attention
BRAC, the world’s biggest NGO worked with Rohingya children to send an unforgettable message to space and put the crisis on the world stage
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