CHILDREN UNDERGROUND

dir - Edet Belzberg
prod - Edet Belzberg, Michel Negroponte, Alan Oxman
edit - Jonathan Oppenheim

> Oscar Nominee
> Sundance Film Festival ( Special Jury Prize)
> Theatrical, HBO
> IMDB

This Oscar-nominated documentary explores the tragic policy decision by Romanian dictator Nicolei Ceaucescu to outlaw contraceptives and encourage his impoverished populace to have more children. Thousands of children were born to broken or dysfunctional families in a nation mired in political and economic instability, resulting in a large and rapidly growing population of homeless children (more than 20,000 estimated) in the city of Bucharest.