WHEN I WAS YOUNG I SAID I WOULD BE HAPPY is a feature length documentary about the transformation achieved by 12 orphan genocide survivors in Rwanda after participating in a new form of sustainable humanitarian aid called Project LIGHT. Using a train the trainer model, these young people called Ambassadors, were trained to heal their Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and their hearts as well as teach others to do the same. In only two short years they paid forward their healing to hundreds, from Rwanda to Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
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Top Cast
Scarlett Lewis as Self
J.T. Lewis as Self
Lori Leyden as Self
CCH Pounder as Narrator (voice)
Top Crew
Paul J. Lynch · Director
Ellen Goldwasser · Writer
Barnet Bain · Producer
Lori Leyden · Executive Producer
Nicolas M. Ortner · Executive Producer
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