Indianapolis International Film Festival 2009

Diabetes is fast emerging as one of the most serious health problems of our time - a global epidemic that claims more lives each year than HIV/AIDS. Children with diabetes in the developing world are particularly vulnerable. Many lack access to proper care and the life saving medicines they need. As a result, they become chronically ill; many die quickly, while others develop severe complications such as kidney failure, blindness and nerve damage.Directed by Academy Award-nominee Edward Lachman, the new documentary Life for a Child follows the journeys of children with type 1 diabetes amid the verdant mountains and swarming streets of Nepal, one the world's poorest countries.Through their eyes and in their words, we experience their life-and-death struggle to survive, and, in fact, even thrive.