About Ana

WINNER - Audience Choice Award – Sedona Film Festival
WINNER - Int’l Spirit Award – Sedona Film Festival
WINNER - Best Live Action Short Film – Santa Barbara Film Festival (Academy Qualifying 2010)
WINNER - Best Int’l Short Film – Foyle Film Festival (Academy Qualifying 2010)
WINNER – Best Screenplay - Los Angeles Int’l Short Film Festival
WINNER – Best Short Film – Norwich Int’l Film Festival
WINNER – Best of the Fest – Norwich Int’l Film Festival
WINNER – Best Dramatic Short Film – New Hampshire Film Festival
WINNER – Best Short FIlm - Cenflo Film Festival
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“Sometimes you get a chance to participate in something worthwhile. And sometimes you do someone a favor and it turns out better than you ever hoped. I certainly feel that way about Panavision’s involvement in “Ana’s Playground”. Every year Panavision supports emerging filmmakers with a variety of equipment and services. Often it’s their opportunity to expand their skills or create a calling card. Less often what they create is a fully realized and powerful work that is worth watching on its own strength. Eric Howell’s beautiful short “Ana’s Playground” is well imagined, perfectly cast and freshly seen. It’s also about something important.”

Andy Romanoff
EVP Technical Marketing & Strategy – Panavision Inc.
President – Panavision Remote Systems
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“Ana’s Playground shares a story about the impact of war and conflict on innocent souls. It demonstrates that the loss of a child’s playful spirit should never be acceptable as collateral damage or a casualty of war. Ana’s Playground will be a provocateur for viewers to reflect about all of innocence lost in war and it will be a catalyst for meaningful dialogue and action around the issue of war-affected children.”
Kevin Carroll
Author & Consultant
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• 66% of war casualties are children.

• 2,000 children are killed or injured in war every day.

• It is estimated that over 300,000 children are fighting in active combat. This represents 10% of all combatants fighting in wars around the world.

Several organizations are in place helping to change the lives of child soldiers and war-affected children including but not limited to RIGHT TO PLAY, WARCHILD, AMERICAN REFUGEE COMMITTEE, and INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS.

Public awareness is essential for organizations like these to continue the important work of stabilizing the lives of children who will one day become the adult population. To that end, we are producing a short film titled “Ana’s Playground”. The film is an allegory about the moment a child is forced to choose between ideology and humanity while living and playing in a dangerous war environment.

Production of the film made possible entirely through charitable donations.

The producers are offering the film as a fundraising and publicity tool to non-governmental organizations working to improve the lives of children. The film’s promotional materials and screening events will made available to provide exposure opportunities for these groups.

OUR MISSION STATEMENT: The filmmakers intend to make an Oscar-worthy short film that reaches the largest audience possible, whose purpose it is to raise awareness about war-affected children and the organizations that work to make their lives better.

In particular Ana’s Playground is pleased to be supporting the efforts of RIGHT TO PLAY.

If you would like to help RIGHT TO PLAY – please Text the word PLAY to 90999 to make a $5 donation.
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“This is a thought-provoking film about children affected by war and you cannot leave the cinema without bringing Ana with you. It makes you think about all the children living with war and what we can do to change it. Right To Play is a proud partner of Ana’s Playground and we intend to create discussion forums around the world on this important issue.”
Johann Koss – President & CEO Right to Play
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“It would be enough if this story only sensitized viewers to the punishing reality of violence that children and youth regularly confront throughout the world . . . but Ana’s Playground expertly and movingly does much more: It instructs on their courage and resourcefulness, strengths that are poised to be used elsewhere in their lives – and will be by those fortunate enough to survive the senseless catastrophe of war.”

Brian K. Barber
Director, Center for the Study of Youth and Political Violence
The University of Tennessee
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