{"id":19710,"date":"2023-05-31T10:41:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T14:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/toy-green-sets-ghetto-kids-debut-documentary\/"},"modified":"2023-05-31T10:41:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T14:41:58","slug":"toy-green-sets-ghetto-kids-as-debut-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/toy-green-sets-ghetto-kids-as-debut-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Toy Green Sets Ghetto Kids as Debut Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ghetto Kids<\/em> (w.t.), telling the story of a Ugandan dance troupe, is set to be the debut documentary from Toy Green, founded by the team behind Films by Nomad.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary centers on Dauda Kavuma, a former Ugandan street kid who founded the Ghetto Kids Foundation, a dance troupe that became a viral sensation and is now headed to the <em>Britain\u2019s Got Talent<\/em> semi-finals. It provides an unfiltered look at Kavuma\u2019s reality and the daily struggle to provide food, clothing, education, medical support and shelter for a house full of children.<\/p>\n<p>Filmmaker Phil Griffiths (<em>Covid-19: Dubai<\/em>, Discovery) from Toy Green uses a mixture of ob-doc and to-camera interviewers to delve into Kavuma\u2019s early life as a street kid in the slums, having lost his father at a young age and finding himself penniless and homeless at the age of seven. Since then, he has been a footballer, schoolteacher, charity worker, dance group manager, music producer, NGO founder, entrepreneur and, of course, the mastermind behind the Ghetto Kids dance troupe, helping underprivileged children use dance as a vehicle to educate, provide, empower and build a different life for themselves and their community.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ghetto Kids<\/em> is executive produced by Zo\u00eb Griffiths (<em>Inside Mission Kosovo<\/em>, National Geographic Channel) and Tim Swain (<em>Covid-19: Dubai<\/em>, Discovery).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so happy to have met the Toy Green team and for the time they have invested in me and our story,\u201d Kavuma said. \u201cIt is the first time that I have felt free to talk about many of these experiences and to discuss everything we have been through to get to where we are today. I am really just so happy that my story will be spread around the world and that people will get to know more about the Ghetto Kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Phil Griffiths added, \u201cThe drive behind making this film was to get a deeper understanding of Dauda\u2019s life, motivations and his dedication to the Ghetto Kids. The truth of what it takes to provide for these kids and to sensitively tell the stories of the children and families who are supported by his foundation. It was an absolute privilege to witness the energy and unbreakable spirit of Dauda and the Ghetto Kids; their drive and joy for life is utterly infectious.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghetto Kids (w.t.), telling the story of a Ugandan dance troupe, is set to be the debut documentary from Toy Green, founded by the team behind Films by Nomad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":19711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[7585,7586,7587,7588,7589],"class_list":["post-19710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-dauda-kavuma","tag-films-by-nomad","tag-ghetto-kids","tag-phil-griffiths","tag-toy-green","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Toy Green Sets Ghetto Kids as Debut Documentary - TVREAL<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/toy-green-sets-ghetto-kids-as-debut-documentary\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Toy Green Sets Ghetto Kids as Debut Documentary - TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ghetto Kids (w.t.), telling the story of a Ugandan dance troupe, is set to be the debut documentary from Toy Green, founded by the team behind Films by Nomad.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/toy-green-sets-ghetto-kids-as-debut-documentary\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-05-31T14:41:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/07\/ToyGreen-GhettoKids-0523.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"338\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/toy-green-sets-ghetto-kids-as-debut-documentary\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/toy-green-sets-ghetto-kids-as-debut-documentary\/\",\"name\":\"Toy Green Sets Ghetto Kids as Debut Documentary - TVREAL\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2023-05-31T14:41:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-05-31T14:41:58+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/toy-green-sets-ghetto-kids-as-debut-documentary\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/toy-green-sets-ghetto-kids-as-debut-documentary\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/toy-green-sets-ghetto-kids-as-debut-documentary\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Toy Green Sets Ghetto Kids as Debut Documentary\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\",\"name\":\"TVREAL\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\",\"name\":\"Jamie Stalcup\",\"description\":\"Jamie Stalcup is the executive editor of World Screen. 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