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Please join us for

a special
screening/fundraiser for

REBUILDING HOPE

a work-in-progress documentary

by Jen Marlowe

Sunday, November 16
6:30-8:30pm

Zinner Forum
Heller
Brandeis Univeristy
 REBUILDING HOPE features Gabriel Bol Deng, Koor Garang and Garang Mayuol, who were born in South Sudan. In 1987, as young children, they were forced to flee when militiamen led violent attacks on their villages. They crossed Southern Sudan on foot, reaching safety in refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya. They came to the U.S. in 2001 as part of a large number of Southern Sudanese young men nicknamed “Lost Boys.”

In 2007, filmmaker Jen Marlowe accompanied these young men on their return to Sudan. The film documents Gabriel Bol, Koor, and Garang in their quest to find surviving family-members and rediscover and contribute to their homeland; it also sheds light on what the future holds for South Sudan in its struggle for peace, development and stability.

All donations from the evening will go towards completing this important documentary film. Once completed, all proceeds from the film will go towards the healthcare and education projects in Sudan initiated by the three young men featured in the film.

Please contact Mangok Bol at mbol@brandeis.edu or (781) 736 2234 with questions.

This event is co-sponsored by the MA program in Cultural Production and the Program in International and Global Studies.

Please join us for
a special
NYC screening/fundraiser for

REBUILDING HOPE

a work-in-progress documentary
by Jen Marlowe

RECEPTION TO FOLLOW
Thursday, November 20
7:00-9:00pm



133 Greene St (between Prince & Houston)
Soho, NYC

(Subway Info: B,D, F, V to Broadway/Lafayette; R, W to Prince Street, 6 (downtown only) to Bleeker Street)
(Suggested minimum donation $20)


REBUILDING HOPE features Gabriel Bol Deng, Koor Garang and Garang Mayuol, who were born in South Sudan. In 1987, as young children, they were forced to flee when militiamen led violent attacks on their villages. They crossed Southern Sudan on foot, reaching safety in refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya. They came to the U.S. in 2001 as part of a large number of Southern Sudanese young men nicknamed “Lost Boys.”

In 2007, filmmaker Jen Marlowe accompanied these young men in their return to Sudan. The film documents Gabriel Bol, Koor, and Garang in their quest to find surviving family-members and rediscover and contribute to their homeland; it also sheds light on what the future holds for South Sudan in its struggle for peace, development and stability.

All proceeds from the evening will go towards completing this important documentary film. Once completed, all proceeds from the film will go towards the healthcare and education projects in Sudan initiated by the three young men featured in the film.

RSVP to Jen Marlowe at jenmarlowe@hotmail.com

This event made possible by the support of the Oded Halahmy Foundation for the Arts, Inc

Please join us for

a special
CITY screening of

REBUILDING HOPE

a work-in-progress documentary

by Jen Marlowe




(Suggested minimum donation $20; proceeds will go towards completion of film.)
 REBUILDING HOPE features Gabriel Bol Deng, Koor Garang and Garang Mayuol, who were born in South Sudan. In 1987, as young children, they were forced to flee when militiamen led violent attacks on their villages. They crossed Southern Sudan on foot, reaching safety in refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya. They came to the U.S. in 2001 as part of a large number of Southern Sudanese young men nicknamed “Lost Boys.”

In 2007, filmmaker Jen Marlowe accompanied these young men in their return to Sudan. The film documents Gabriel Bol, Koor, and Garang in their quest to find surviving family-members and rediscover and contribute to their homeland; it also sheds light on what the future holds for South Sudan in its struggle for peace, development and stability.

All proceeds from the evening will go towards completing this important documentary film. Once completed, all proceeds from the film will go towards the healthcare and education projects in Sudan initiated by the three young men featured in the film.

RSVP to Jen Marlowe
jenmarlowe@hotmail.com / 1.202.375.3492
WASHINGTON DC:

Wednesday, September 10th
6:30pm (doors open at 6pm)
Busboys & Poets
2021 14th @ V Street NW
(in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting)


SEATTLE, WA
(partial funding provided by the City of Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs)

Tuesday, September 16
6:00-8:00pm
East-West Bookshop
6500 Roosevelt Way NE

Tuesday, September 23
7:00-9:00pm
911 Media Arts Center
402 9th Ave North


Tuesday, October 30, 2007

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
 
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Rebuilding Hope has been supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.