Dec 2007
Documentary filmmakers Lisamarie Costabile and Mark Larson followed Dr. Thomas Romo and the Little Baby Face Foundation as they treated Peyton Sherrill, a boy from Alabama who was born with microtia (he was born without his right ear). The Little Baby Face Foundation is a New York City-based organization of surgeons and medical providers who volunteer their time and expertise to treat children from around the world born with facial birth defects. Dr. Thomas Romo, a renowned plastic surgeon, started the foundation in 2002.
Aug 2008
Photojournalists Lynn Peterson and Mark Larson followed members of Empowering Lives International and Orphans Hope to East Africa, documenting their efforts to empower the victims of abandonment, environmental disasters, war, corruption, HIV, personal addictions, and lack of education and resources in Central and East Africa through strategic training programs and facilities aimed to recapture and rebuild the lives of the poor and oppressed. Filming occurred in Sudan, Kenya, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo.