Archive for May, 2007
Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival
“Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival” is now a book, published by Nation Books. The book launch event was hosted by Amnesty International and Nation Books at the Pomegranate Gallery in Soho, New York City in November, 2006 and was televised on C-Span2’s Book Talk program.
Refugees and displaced peoples, civilians and fighters resisting the Sudanese government, teachers, students, parents, children and community leaders provide the heart of “Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival”. Their stories and testimonies, woven together through the personal experience of the filmmakers, and conveyed with political and historical context, provide a much-needed account to help understand Darfur. “Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival” will enable readers to meet the inspiring people of Darfur, take a glimpse into their lives, compel you to care about them, and demonstrate what it took for their story to be told.
Organize a Darfur Diaries Event
Following are some guidelines and suggestions for organizing a screening of “Darfur Diaries”.
Download this page (.pdf, 53kb).
- Determine a date and a venue for your event:
The format is a DVD, so you will need a venue with a DVD player, projector and sound system. If you want to preview the film before the event, it is available for rental at Hollywood Video and Netflix, or for individual purchase (which does not include screening rights) on amazon.com. - Obtain the screening rights:
Contact Nick from Cinema Libre Studios to obtain the rights to screen the film publicly or to purchase an institutional copy.
Email: santillan@cinemalibrestudio.com
Phone: 818-349-9922
If you want to organize a “film plus lecture” event with the filmmakers, please contact Creativewell, Inc.
Email: info@creativewell.com
Phone: 1-800-743-9182 - Advertise your event:
- Create contacts with community partners—the more schools, mosques, churches, synagogues, human rights groups, etc you have on board with you, the more the event will be embraced by and attended by the wider community;
Darfur Diaries: Message From Home
Run-time: 57 minutes
Jen Marlowe, Aisha Bain, & Adam Shapiro in Darfur, Sudan
Synopsis:
In October, 2004 a team of three independent filmmakers – Aisha Bain, Jen Marlowe and Adam Shapiro – left for Darfur, Sudan and eastern Chad. After monitoring the worsening political and humanitarian crisis for months and recognizing that the mainstream media offered marginal and inadequate coverage, the team set out with the goal of providing a platform for the people of Darfur (both those displaced inside Darfur and those living in refugee camps in Chad) to speak for themselves about their experiences, their fears, and their hopes for the future. The conflict serves as the ongoing narrative in the film, but the focus is on the people who are living through what has been termed a “genocide.” Through the voices of refugees, displaced persons, and in particular women and children, who are always among the most vulnerable in any conflict situation, this film seeks to provide space for the marginalized victims of atrocities to speak and to engage with the world. Additionally, the film probes the history, culture and heritage of Darfur as a means of deepening understanding of the crisis and complicating easily assumed perceptions by which the conflict is often portrayed (such as a matter of race, ethnicity or religion).
About the Darfur Diaries project
After decades of oppression, marginalization and increasing violence at the hands of the Sudanese government, the Sudanese Liberation Army in Darfur (the western region of Sudan) took up arms in 2003. The government and allied militias, known as Janjaweed, answered the rebellion with large-scale murder of civilians, mass rapes of women and girls, and destruction of villages—resulting in one of the world’s largest current political and humanitarian crises.
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