Directors: David Aronowitsch, Hanna Heilborn and Mats Johansson (SW)
Genre: Animated Documentary
Sweden, 2002 / 8 min (35 mm), colour & sound

The Film
The film is based on an interview with twelve-year-old Giancarlo. He lives as a hidden refugee in Sweden. Documentary sound, from the real interview made by Hanna Heilborn and David Aronowitsch in August 1999, is combined with art work by Mats Johansson, animated in 3-D. The directors aim to create a level where you can listen to and absorb the story of one refugee child in a new way.

David Aronowitsch
David Aronowitsch (b. 1964) has worked with documentary films the last ten years. He studied film directing 1988-1992 at the polish National Film School in Lodz. He has done shorter and longer documentary films for the Swedish Film Institute and The Swedish public service television company (SVT). He has also worked as producer for the television series Ikon for SVT. He is co-owner of the production company Story AB. Recently he has done the short animated documentary Hidden with Hannah Heilborn and Mats Johansson. It has been awarded with several prizes, Best International Short in Hot Docs, Canadian International Documentary Festival and Fajr International Film Festival in Iran. It also got honorary mention at Nordic Panorama 2002.

Hannah Heilborn
Hanna Heilborn (b. in 1968) studied at the Dramatiska Institutet in Sweden from 1994-1996 and at the New York Film School in 1994. She produced the radio documentary “Miriam, Miriam” together with David Aronowitsch.