The Upper Canada District School Board celebrated their annual “Real to Reel Film Festival” today at the Galaxy Theatre in Brockville.  This was really special for us as they had asked our own Stephen MacKinnon to be the key note speaker.  As you may recall from a previous blog posting, Stephen had submitted some of the Chausy Orphanage kids videos to the festival and they chose to show a documentary that Karina made.  While we were in Belarus a few weeks ago, Stephen presented Karina with a plaque from the Festival.

The theme this year was “Character Always” and it was felt that Karina’s documentary Continue reading →