February 23, 2011 SFP Studio held its first inaugural event featuring Lindsay Branham and Jonathan Olinger, two young and talented documentary filmmakers whose film No More Tears deals with the issue of child soldiers.

Lindsay Branham and Jonathan Olinger are humanitarian photographers and international documentary filmmakers, focusing on capturing stories exposing injustices children face around the world and using that media to advocate forintervention on their behalf. This ethos has taken them to conflict and disaster areas around the world with the commitment to create excellent, beautiful, journalistically sound art, but with the focus to expose injustice and see change realized for children.

No More Tears Visual from Lindsay Branham on Vimeo.

In 2010, they produced the documentary “Rescued,” about Haiti’s orphans after the earthquake that aired on CNN and most recently finished production on a three year long documentary journey following the lives and friendship of two child soldiers in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, working title, “No More Tears.” Two child soldiers, two best friends, Heritier and Mwisha, are torn apart by war. Mwisha disappears and Heritier begins a search to find his missing friend. This pursuit to find Mwisha took them into rebel base camps, behind enemy lines, and intimately into the lives of two children forced to become tools of war struggling to understand and pursue peace in a landscape of violence.

Lindsay and Jonathan create their media about children and subsequent advocacy and education under the banner of Discover The Journey www.DTJ.org, a non-profit organization that they run together.