Screening is Part of ‘Cinema and Social Justice Sunday’ On November 11 At The Morehouse School Of Medicine
| WHAT: | HBO Documentary Films will screen WITNESS: SOUTH SUDAN during the third annual BronzeLens Film Festival. The film is included in the “Cinema and Social Justice Sunday” lineup. |
| In South Sudan, thousands have been killed, abducted or displaced by Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). French photojournalist Veronique de Viguerie travels with the Arrow Boys, an unpaid militia of farmers who took up arms to protect their families from the LRA. For the last two decades, Joseph Kony has led a campaign of unfathomable brutality in an attempt to impose his command as the law of the land. His forces have kidnapped and forced into sexual or military slavery an estimated 60,000 children and driven two million of Uganda’s people from their homes. The pregnant de Viguerie treks through wilderness with the Arrow Boys, as well as with the Ugandan Army. | |
| WHO: | David Frankham — Director/Executive Producer, WITNESS |
| WHEN: | Sunday, November 11, 2012 – 3:30 pm screening of WITNESS: SOUTH SUDAN followed by discussion and reception |
| WHERE: | Morehouse School of Medicine 720 Westview Drive Southwest, Atlanta, GA 30310 -Screening: Louis W. Sullivan National Center for Primary Care Auditorium -Reception: E. Ginger Sullivan Atrium |
| DETAILS: | Executive produced by writer-director Michael Mann (“The Insider,” “Ali,” “Heat,” HBO’s “Luck”) and acclaimed commercial and documentary director David Frankham, WITNESS: SOUTH SUDAN is one of a four-part documentary series which also includes WITNESS: JUAREZ, WITNESS: LIBYA and WITNESS:RIO. All episodes follow our current generation of photojournalists into conflict zones where drug trafficking, poverty, gang violence, corruption and ethnic warfare have created some of the most dangerous hot spots on Earth. The series explores what compels the photojournalist, when everyone else seeks cover, to move closer and stand as WITNESS. |
| WITNESS: SOUTH SUDAN debuts exclusively on HBO on MONDAY, NOV. 19 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT). | |
| For more information on WITNESS please visit Facebook.com/HBODocs, Twitter: @HBODocs #HBOWitness, youtube.com/hbodocs. |
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