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The other question I normally get is "how much did you pay your protagonists?", not only for this film but in general, if I shoot a documentary. I'm very much against paying the protagonists. I think that screws up the whole relationship between protagonist and director, if there is a sum of money named at the beginning of the shoot. But in this case we started to think how to help during the shooting process, but also afterwards. We took them to Leipzig for the festival premiere, which was amazing for the kids. Obviously, we couldn't say anymore "oh, we are not paying because we are professional documentary filmmakers", because these people really needed help. So one way of helping them was by organizing charity screenings, where people who watched the film were really ready to help and donate some money, but then we also organized charity screenings to see what are the other ways we can help. At some point there were people coming to us with information about other shelters they could join or how they could find a work place. It was much about community helping, which I think it's more important than the money we managed to raise for them. Also I think there was some help with their identity. The kids were hiding this whole story about their situation before the film happened. They didn't want to talk about it. After the Leipzig screening there was a screening in Hungary where Viktor stood up and said "I want to do the Q&A with you." We always invited him, but in Hungary I never knew how much he wanted to be identified with this whole problem, but he wanted to and sat in the Q&A next to me and started to talk about his own life. It was so beautiful to see how he managed to get through that and talk about these things, considering that this can help other people. Somehow he became the hero of his own life. So it's quite amazing.
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