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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi6WdqHDoco
