Big Small People is an international collaboration between 6 animation schools focusing on Children's Rights. The project was inaugurated in Israel and supported by UNESCO to spread knowledge about the Middle East, the first of several themes identified from the UN's 52 articles of Children's Rights. The overall purpose is to enhance awareness and debate among children, and to achieve practical interchange between communities across national borders. Each participating school produces several short animated films exploring children's voices from a broad perspective. Individual students responded very differently to this theme. Varied visual techniques are employed using sand, 2D and 3D digital, scratch, clay and puppets. The films are made for a broad audience and to address the issues raised, but at the same time they demonstrate a cross -section of work emerging from young filmmakers in a variety of animation schools and differing cultural traditions. Continuation of this collaboration between schools may include additional partners, who at present comprise the RCA, School of Visual Art (NY), Supinfo.com (France), Camera Obscura School of Art (Israel), Moholy Nagy University (Budapest), Media Art Academy (Cologne) and the National Institute of Design (India). The context and methodology was decided at project-leader group meetings in Israel and at the RCA, and followed by training and workshop sessions with children and students. Work from a 2-hour DVD has been shown on Israeli TV (2005), at eMagiciennes festival (France) and the Animated festival (Exeter), 2007, which also hosted a debate on the project with myself, Yael Eylat (Israel), Nina Sabnani (India) and a UNICEF representative. Bridge Gallery, Exeter, also showed 50 examples of artwork for the project (Jan/Feb 2007). Selections have been shown in all participating schools and countries, and individual works from the project have been screened at international venues.