Starting Date: 04-18-2006
Starting Time: 9:00pm
Van Dyck Hall 211
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901
United StatesVan Dyck Hall 211
Rutgers University
16 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
USA
Lost Boys of Sudan is a feature-length documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America. Orphaned as young boys in one of Africa�s cruelest civil wars, Peter Dut and Santino Chuor survived lion attacks and militia gunfire to reach a refugee camp in Kenya along with thousands of other children. From there, remarkably, they were chosen to come to America. Safe at last from physical danger and hunger, a world away from home, they find themselves confronted with the abundance and alienation of contemporary American suburbia.
Lost Boys of Sudan won an Independent Spirit Award and screened theatrically in 70 cities across the US to strong audience and critical praise. The film was broadcast nationally on the PBS series POV in the fall of 2004 and earned two Emmy nominations.
An extensive national outreach campaign has brought Lost Boys of Sudan to thousands of community settings to build awareness and support for refugees and the crisis in Darfur, Sudan. The film was screened on Capitol Hill with the Congressional Refugee and Human Rights Caucuses as well as with the State Department�s Refugee and Migration Bureau. It is in use as an educational tool by Amnesty International and the United Nations. Lost Boys of Sudan has already raised more than a half million dollars in direct educational support for the Sudanese youth across the country, recruited thousands of volunteers for local community organizations, and raised funds and political action for the Darfur crisis. The film�s community action campaign will continue full force through 2006.
As part of this campaign, we, at Rutgers, have been chosen to receive the Lost Boys of Sudan DVD and mini-grant from the filmmakers to host the film at Rutgers. At the film showing, we will be joined by Rutgers University Associate Professor of History Barbara Cooper, who will begin with a brief introduction about the crisis in Sudan.
For more information, please contact Alison Lazaro at aflazaro@eden.rutgers.edu.Geographical Scope: Local Other |
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