Children are the greatest casualties of war.

Hi! I’m Elle de Champagne and I’m the producer/writer/director of BOY. This is a story that is extremely close to my heart.

Since an early age, I was traumatized by my father’s stories and childhood memories as a victim of war. He was one of the many child-victims that lived and witnessed so much atrocity.

Unfortunately, the stories continue to this day. According to UNICEF, in the past decade over 2,000,000 children have died as a direct result of armed conflict!

We have got to band together to bring an end to these atrocities.

There have been many inspiring people over the years who have been extremely outspoken against war and who have helped to transform the outlook of many.

Two in particular are Martin Luther King Jr. and Mother Teresa.

Mother Teresa once said that she would never participate in any anti-war demonstration but would always be willing to go to a pro-peace rally. What she meant was that…

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in order to end war you need to focus on creating peace.
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Similarly, Martin Luther King Jr. believed that…

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the only way to end hatred was with love.
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We need to stoke the fires that Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr. and countless others have built and BOY will do this for us.

Boy is the inspiring story of an 8 year-old boy who gains the insight to bring peace to his world in spite of struggling to survive war and the wrath of a heartless soldier. This story inspires us all to take a step towards creating peace in our lives thus moving the world towards peace.

We need your help to produce this film. This will be our way to help to end the pain that MILLIONS of children suffer.

Here’s how YOU can help make a difference NOW!

(1) Make sure you ‘Like’ this page in order to raise the awareness of BOY. Together we can help BOY deliver it’s message…

IT’S TIME TO MAKE A GIANT LEAP TOWARDS PEACE.

(2) Be sure to sign-up for our mailing list on the left beside the BOY logo to keep up to date on the production of BOY and to keep stoking the fire of this project and it’s message (this is also available on the BOY website – see below).

(3) If you can, please make a donation to the production. Go to http://wwwindiegogo.com/boy.

Together we WILL make a difference.

Peace and love

ps – We invite you to find out more by visiting the BOY website at http://www.boy-themovie.com

In Memorium.  Check it out!! and see you next season!

 This time it turned out to be Mahjong Solitaire.  I’ve played this game a numerous amount of times and so I know a few things about myself when it comes to this game.

I know I can win the game no matter what.  Sometimes it’s easy and sometimes it requires a lot of focus.  So I choose my battles.  Sometimes I’m into the challenge and sometimes I’m not.  

See, sometimes I just want a diversion.  Something to keep me occupied while I wait.  Something mindless.  Sometimes I like and even love the challenge of a difficult game because I know there’s a way to solve this particular game, I just have to keep on trying until I figure it out.  I never came across a game that was very difficult and if I was in the mood to solve it no matter what, that I couldn’t solve it.

So, as I was playing last night, DING – a light goes off with the sound of a bell.  It was the dryer.  No seriously though… actually I was also doing some laundry so I wonder if that has anything to do with this referrence, actually, I’m still doing laundry as we speak so that reference is not so far fetched… ANYWAY!!!

So I had an epiphany.  I thought, life is like this.  Anything is like this.  My project Boy is like this.

A couple of posts ago I mentioned that I’m developing a short film called Boy which is the most significant film of the 21st Century.  I’ve created a masive challenge for myself.  I have visions of this film reaching a world wide audience of 40 million and then 1 billion and to actually cause a shift in concsiousness.

I’m currently in between the writing stage and pre-production of Boy and sometimes, as is quite common during these times, you question whether it is ready yet to move onto the next stage.  Because making a movie requires enormous about of man-power and finances, it is quite understandable that there is often hesitation.

Aside from this, I always felt that I had something significant to add to the world and I don’t want to make this movie so that it fails.  I want it to succeed!  So, is the script there yet?  Is this the script of a movie that is going to succeed?

And then it hit me.   I thought, this is like my game of Mahjong Solitaire.  I know I will win the game and this is one of those times when I’m in the mood to win and I’m up for the challenge.  And so I just need to let go of all of the constraints and keep on developing and creating this movie like I know I’m going to succeed until I do succeed.

No matter what, my message will get out there with Boy and I will make a significant contribution to the world!  Yay!

It’s about triumph.

It’s about peace… on a global scale.

It’s about the joy, bliss and innocence of childhood smashing into the  bitterness, arrogance and ignorance of adulthood and uncovering a world, an awakening of peace, harmony and wisdom.

It’s about creating a shift in global consciousness.

1. Presently editing the webseries Head Space. I’m completing the fourth episode and the third is going to be released shortly. Check it out at www.headspacetheseries.com.
2. Working on the script for a short I want to shoot before winter. It’s called Boy and it’s about, you got it, an 8 year old boy who struggles to survive and make sense of the attrocities of war. Yep, it’s very intense.
3. I’m working on the proposal for a fiction called “How I got my J.A. Bod”. J.A. = Jennifer Anniston. It’s really funny and enlightning all at once. It’s like a Kung Fu meets Bridget Jones.
4. I’m also in the midst of completing an online video course on how to work with any type of director and be successful. Very excited about it.
5. I’ve also recently revamped my e-book website and I need to find people to help me promote the book. If you have a chance, check out the website and sign up for the 8-week course. www.liveyourdreamnow-thebook.com

There are a few more thing that I’m working on but those are the big ones so be sure to ask me about them once in a while.

Peace and love,

Elle

PS – This is so much easier to keep a blog this way. Wish I’d done it sooner!