Insights developed working with Sudden Flowers Productions, an accomplished youth film collective of AIDS orphans in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

1. 5 One-Minute Lessons
on Youth Media
Ida C. Benedetto
Media Strategist
@idaimages

2. Sudden Flowers Productions

3. 1. Friendship First

5. “If that friendship is not there, there’s
no sense of support. The kids can get
vulnerable after they’ve shared the
traumatic past.”
Dhaniel - Film Maker, Teacher/ Manager of Sudden Flowers

6. 2. Mission Dictates
Content

8. “The primary mission of Sudden
Flowers is this: even if you are an
orphan, you can live. You can become
someone. That is what we teach with
our films.”
Adane - Sudden Flowers Member

9. 3. Product Serves Process

11. “I was very emotional because we
made my film when I was very new to
Sudden Flowers. I had a very difficult
time. I was crying because the story
was inside. After I finished the project, I
had a different perspective. ‘That’s me,
that’s my story,’ I thought. I accepted it.”
Meron - Sudden Flowers Member

12. 4. Collaboration Brings
Catharsis

14. “If you work together, if you
collaborate, the results are good. You
could do something nice. You could be
someone else tomorrow.”
Konjit - Sudden Flowers Member

15. 5. Self-Esteem is
Contagious

17. “You would not believe the impact that
the Sudden Flowers kids have on all the
other children. They have transformed
and raise the whole community up
with their self-esteem.”
Woinchet - Director of Hope For Children Orphanage

18. 1. Friendship First
2. Mission Dictates Content
3. Product Serves Process
4. Collaboration Brings Catharsis
5. Self-Esteem is Contagious

19. Thank you!
@idaimages