Play is the First Language
Editor, 2025
A short documentary exploring the meaning and the challenges of integration in a Roma community in Varna, Bulgaria through interviews and interactions with the children, their parents and teachers.
Play Is the First Language follows a charity-supported community project where local educators and families work together to prepare Roma children for school through play-based learning, simultaneously building trust and understanding within the community.
The documentary offers a hopeful view of change led by education, care, and community.
Director: Nina Georgieff
Production Company: Little Lark Productions
DOP: Lap Yin Brooks
Assistant Editors: Tamara Ishida and Bruna Manfredi
Colour and Online: Adam Brown, Coda Post Production
Sound Design: Saul Rivers, Coda Post Production
Titles and Credits Design: Chloe Marquand
