Film: The Price of Free

Derek Doneen | 92min | 2018 | United States

This film depicts how Nobel Peace Prize-winning Kailash Satyarthi left a career as an electrical engineer and started Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save the Childhood Movement) to rescue children from slavery. In the decades since, he has rescued more than 87,000 children and built a global movement including one of the largest civil society movements, the Global March Against Child Labor, which demanded an international law on the worst forms of child labor, and the 100 Million Campaign, a youth-driven call to action ensuring every child in the world is free, safe and educated.

Nobel Laureate Mr. Kailash Satyarthi in attendance.
In partnership with Indiaspora

Filmmaker: Derek Doneen

The Price of Free marks director Derek Doneen’s feature documentary debut. Doneen has worked closely with Davis Guggenheim, since creating content for Guggenheim’s documentary Waiting for “Superman” while working at Participant Media. Their creative partnership grew during Guggenheim’s 2016 convention film for President Obama, which Doneen edited. Prior to directing Kailash, Doneen directed the documentary short Spent: Looking for Change, produced the documentaries The Dream Is Now and Shot in the Dark, and edited Showtime’s Kobe Bryant’s Muse.