Unletterboxd

Discover

  • Popular
  • Top Rated

Genres

loading...

TMDB logo

This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Animation
  • Comedy
  • Crime
  • Documentary
  • Drama
  • Family
  • Fantasy
  • History
  • Horror
  • Music
  • Mystery
  • Romance
  • Science Fiction
  • TV Movie
  • Thriller
  • War
  • Western
Movie poster

When I Was Young I Said I Would Be Happy

20160.0 / 1078 min
Documentary

Overview

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.

Cast

Scarlett Lewis

Scarlett Lewis

Self

J.T. Lewis

J.T. Lewis

Self

Lori Leyden

Lori Leyden

Self

CCH Pounder

CCH Pounder

Narrator (voice)

Crew

Barnet Bain

Barnet Bain

Producer

Lori Leyden

Lori Leyden

Executive Producer

Ellen Goldwasser

Ellen Goldwasser

Writer

Paul J. Lynch

Paul J. Lynch

Director

Nicolas M. Ortner

Nicolas M. Ortner

Executive Producer