FRAGILE PEACE; REPORTS FROM SOUTH SUDAN
Screenings/Presentation and Discussion
Location: American University's Harold and Sylvia Greenberg Theatre
4200 Wisconsin Avenue NW (at intersection with Van Ness)
Washington, D.C. 20016
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Closest metro Tenleytown/AU
Moderated by: Jon Sawyer, Executive Director, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Panelists:
Dave Eggers, author of the novel What Is the What, a fictionalized memoir focusing on the harrowing tale of real-life hero Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee from the Sudanese civil war of the 1980s and 1990s who joined the thousands of other ‘Lost Boys’ fleeing the conflict. Eggers also is founder of the quarterly literary journal McSweeney’s and a 2001 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for his memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.
For more on What Is the What, click here.
For more on Dave Eggers, click here.
Karim Chrobog, is the founder of Tangier Pictures and 18th Street Films, two Washington, D.C.-based film companies dedicated to bringing compelling stories from around the world to international audiences. His forthcoming documentary War Child focuses on Emmanuel Jal, a former Sudanese child soldier who is an emerging hip-hop star with a message of peace for his battered homeland and beyond.
For more on Karim Chrobog, click here.
For more about the film War Child, click here.
Jen Marlowe, a filmmaker and Pulitzer Center-sponsored journalist, this summer accompanied three “Lost Boys” on their first return to the South Sudan villages they fled from nearly two decades ago. Her reporting with fellow Pulitzer Center journalist David Morse looks at connections between the conflict in South Sudan and other parts of Sudan, including Darfur, probing the larger questions of identity and ethnicity. Jen’s Sudan work includes the documentary Darfur Diaries: Message from Home, and the companion book Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival.
For more on Jen Marlowe’s work in South Sudan, click here.
For more on her Darfur work, click here.
To RSVP, contact jheath@pulitzercenter.org
