Catalogue Impact Days
De Raul de la Fuente, Amaia Remirez, Amaia Remirez Garcia et Raúl de la Fuente

Bayo Bayo Baby

Image du film Bayo Bayo Baby - FIFDH 2022

En quête d’amour et d’aventure, Aminata (13 ans) émigre à Freetown, mais à la place, elle se retrouve exploitée par un proxénète qui forme une famille avec des jeunes filles comme elle. À 17 ans, Aminata s’échappe de la ville et retourne chez sa grand-mère. Ce n’est cependant pas sans remords qu’elle à laissé ses amies et veut y remédier. De retour en ville, Aminata patrouille dans les rues malfamées et approche ses amies dans les ruelles sombres, mais elle a l’impression qu’il n’y a pas d’échappatoire. Elles ont besoin d’un endroit sûr pour se rétablir. Il y a une école de surf à Bureh Beach, dirigée par son amie Kadiatu. En surfant dans l’océan, elles se sentent libres, s’approprient à nouveau leur corps. Aminata se précipite dans les vagues. L’océan accueille les enfants des rues. La guérison commence.

Sections : Paroles d'activistes, Impact Days
Pays : Sierra Leone
Langue originale : anglais
Réalisation
Raul de la Fuente
Amaia Remirez
Amaia Remirez Garcia (Espagne)
Raúl de la Fuente (Espagne)
Production
Amaia Remirez
Dominique Barneaud
Amaia Remirez Garcia (Espagne)
Dominique Barneaud (France)
Kanaki Films
Bellota Films
Finalisé en
2024
Impact Statement
Around 2,500 minors live day and night on the streets of Freetown. 47% of girls around the age of 18 have a child or are pregnant because of rape, prostitution, or misinformation. Thanks to Bayo Bayo Baby, young girls escape this life of abuse, take control over their bodies to heal and dream atop of a surfboard. In a country where infant mortality is 40%, the highest in the world, the surf school is the first step of our campaign to protect local childhood in coordination with Don Bosco Fambul, the local NGOs successfully helping children in distress. Last year, they helped 2,500 children with shelter, legal aid, therapy, family reunification and health support.

With Bayo Bayo Baby's emotional and uplifting story, we want to empower young girls and women in Sierra Leone and beyond through education, entrepreneurship, and the healing power of surfing.
Impact Goals
  1. Create and spread awareness about street kids and their possible new opportunities (surf, beach centre, healing process).
  2. Humanise a harsh reality through storytelling, cinema aesthetic and strong characterisation.
  3. Create a surf school hosting street kids, as well as a surfwear brand run for and by the kids.
  4. Generate word of mouth between the kids in Freetown streets, 'if you’re in trouble, go to Don Bosco'.
  5. Generate a political agenda to change and adapt local support (psychological and legal) for street kids.
Impact Strategy
  • Global distribution and high film exposure (A-class festivals, cinema and television distribution).
  • Create specific content about the surfing, surf school, training of young people.
  • Share and offer the film to local and neighbouring countries for grassroots screenings.
  • Partner with key partners: foundations, institutions, surf brands, hotel chains.
  • Share a percentage of the film’s profit to go to the community.
  • Generate a source of income and work training in the long term for kids.
  • Generate African and girls’ empowerment through the project (surf, hotel, self-esteem, contribution to the soundtrack and media content).
  • Mobilize local political forces, including the first lady of Sierra Leone, who is already an advocate of girls’ causes.
Contact
Contact principal
Amaia Remirez Garcia (Espagne): amaia@kanakifilms.com
Participants présents aux Impacts Days
Amaia Remirez Garcia (Espagne)
Dominique Barneaud (France)

Organisations
Don Bosco Fambull

Regional film fund
Gobierno of Navarra
Gobierno del Pais Basco

National film fund
Spanish Ministry of Culture

Media Creative Europe
Région Île de France
Docs Up
Think Film

Organisations
Don Bosco Fambull

Regional film fund
Gobierno of Navarra
Gobierno del Pais Basco

National film fund
Spanish Ministry of Culture

Media Creative Europe
Région Île de France
Docs Up
Think Film