Hillbrow, a hard-scrabble neighborhood in Johannesburg, South Africa, is home to countless street children. Here they beg outside stylish cafes, sleep under bridges in cardboard boxes, sniff glue to get high, and form alliances that are part friendship, part defense - against older, bigger boys whom they fear. Johannesburg, a bustling, modern city of glittering skyscrapers and all the seductions of consumer culture, is home to a vast, affluent white populace. Apartheid's ironic legacy is that today the city attracts children from the poverty-stricken countryside, drawn like moths to a flame. With sensitivity to the individual stories at the heart of these children's lives - HILLBROW KIDS puts faces and names and voices to this tragic phenomenon.

Presented in part with support from Film Forum's Documentary Fund.

• HILLBROW KIDS Webpage
• The Internet Movie Database HILLBROW KIDS Page
• International Documentary Association Website
• LONG NIGHT'S JOURNEY INTO DAY (South-African film previously shown at Film Forum)

• Running towards Us: New Writing from South Africa by Isabel Balseiro (Editor)
• Country of My Skull : Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa by Antjie Krog, Charlayne Hunter-Gault
• Tomorrow Is Another Country : The Inside Story of South Africa's Road to Change by Allister Sparks
• Pixote (1981) - English subtitles
• Los Olvidados (1950) - English subtitles
  

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