Hand Held (2010)

Mike Carroll was one of the first photographers to travel to Romania after the fall of the communist regime in 1989 When he arrived he walked into one of the most horrific scenes of the 20th century His incredible photographs and heart wrenching stories of the pediatric AIDS epidemic in Romania ran in The Boston Globe and The New York Times and opened the eyes of the western world to the plight of the Romanian children What followed was a twentyyear odyssey for Mike and his colleagues as they fought to bring help to a population of children in need in a country that they hardly knew Hand Held is a documentary film produced and directed by twotime Academy Award nominee filmmaker Don Hahn Hahn shot in Boston Bucharest and Transylvania for nearly two years on this extraordinary motion picture about one guy with a camera a band of New Englanders 160000 orphans and the unforgettable story of how they changed each others lives forever