Grab the tissues gals, this short film is sure to make your eyes water. Created by Irish-based NGO, from ‘To Russia With Love’, the film Anya follows a little Russian girl growing up in an orphanage.
The charity was founded by Dubliner Debbie Deegan after she visited a Russian orphanage to adopt a little girl.
“This is a tale of two promises,” said Debbie. “A promise to one little girl that I wouldn’t forget her classmates – the children she had grown up with in the orphanage where she had spent her early years – and a promise to another little girl, who had never been hugged before, that I would come back to her orphanage and hug and kiss her on her birthday”.
Anya is the creation of Brown Bag Films, a twice Oscar-nominated studio, and was directed by Irish writer and director Damien O’Connor.
“It was important that this would be the children’s story; a film for them, by them. What started out as a small idea expanded as we heard the children’s own stories,” said O’Connor.
To support the work of ‘To Russia With Love,’ text HUG to 50300 or donate online to www.torussiawithlove.ie
