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2011 Student Academy Award finalist!

Filmmaker Jeremy Teicher uses his award from Dartmouth College's Lombard Public Service Fellowship, Dickey Center for International Understanding, to initiate a partnership with Kodak, Cybersmart Africa, and the United States Embassy in Dakar to give voice to new storytellers in the developing world.

"This Is Us" empowers Senegalese students who live in villages without electricity to write, film, and narrate stories about their daily lives, hopes, and challenges.

From cooking meals to studying by candlelight to working in the fields after school, the youths of "This Is Us" reveal a fascinatingly honest depiction of everyday life as a rural Senegalese student, a perspective that could only be shared by a local.

· November film premiere at American Ambassador's residence in Dakar, Senegal and the French Cultural Center in Dakar; featured on RTS 1, national Senegalese public television.

· USA premiere at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.

· Clip of project played at Educator’s Inaugural Ball in Washington, DC, 2008.