Documentary shows heart of cleft-palate efforts

With the help of hospital partners of Smile Train, CCTV Documentary Channel (CCTV-9) has made a film, Dzachuka's Smile, to promote the free treatment project for those suffering from cleft lip and palate.

The documentary tells the story of how Tibetan people living in Dzachuka got to know about the Smile Train program, and finally made their way to a hospital in Chengdu to get their children with cleft lip and palate cured, with the help of two Tibetan sisters.

"I have heard lots of stories about people with cleft lip and palate, but it is Smile Train that enables me to know more about the condition and its effect on patients and their families," says Wang Chongxiao, director of the documentary, on the premiere held in September.