In a festival often noted for feel-bad stories, the true feel-good story of "WarDance" is a welcome relief.

The documentary, directed by the husband-and-wife team Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine, follows students at a displaced-persons' camp in northern Uganda as they prepare for a national music and dance festival. The movie profiles three students who have overcome horrendous events in a region where rebel forces frequently attack villages, kill parents and enslave children into their armies.

The movie lets the children tell these terrible stories, but it also shows them finding joy and redemption through their dance and music.

"WarDance" is the first production of Shine Global, a not-for-profit production company that aims to make documentaries illuminating the plight of children in peril. The company was founded by Albie Hecht, former head of the Nickelodeon cable channel.

Hecht is producer of "WarDance," and his wife Susan MacLaury Hecht is executive producer. Mrs. Hecht told an audience Friday night that Shine Global will use fund-raising to pay for making movies, but the proceeds of those movies will go to charities helping the children featured in the films.