Martin Burt
Martin Burt is the founder of Fundacion Paraguaya,a Paraguay based non-profit that has helped to fund,among many other things, the Mbaracayu Forest School. In addition, Burt the visionary leader who…
Nilda Alderete
When fifteen year-old Nilda first arrived at the school, treat she was so shy she was unable to even utter her own name during an introductory 'icebreaker' game, web and instead broke down in…
Claudia Crinagi
Claudia is an indigenous girl from the endangered Aché tribe. The Aché have lived as hunter-gatherers for millennia in the Mbaracayu forest, online but their first contact with ‘civilization’ was not until…
Bianca Caroline Soares
Bianca is a feisty and fearless Brasiguaya (girl born in Brasil but raised in Paraguay) who dreams of becoming the president of Paraguay some day. After meeting her, it's hard…
Numilla Gomez Portillo
Numilla is a young Ava Guarani girl who faces her deepest fears and even risks her life for her education.
Carl Byker (Producer) has won the Primetime Emmy for best non-fiction series of the year, what is ed
two Columbia DuPont silver baton awards, shop two Independent Documentary Association awards for best series of the year, the Peabody award, the Kodak “Vision Award” from the Producers’ Guild of America, and the Investigative Reporter and Editors’ award for best multi-platform project of the year for a collaboration with NPR, Pro Publica and Frontline. In 2014, the Nobel Peace Prize committee tweeted a link to Carl’s film “The Slave Raider” to the world at the same time it announced that the film’s subject, Kailash Satyarthi, had won the award. Carl’s teleplays have also been nominated six times by the Writers’ Guild of America for best non-fiction television script of the year and have won the award twice. Carl’s films include: “The Meth Epidemic,” for Frontline; “Post Mortem,” for Frontline, “The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century,” for PBS and the BBC; “The Human Quest,” for PBS and “The New Heroes” for PBS.
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