Thursday, November 6, 2003

"Lost Boys of Sudan"

A panel discussion will follow with Megan Mylan, film director, Dr. Joyce Neu, Executive Director of IPJ and some who lived the story.

Lost Boys of Sudan is a new 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 evil wars, Peter Dut and Santino Chuor survived 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.

It's real. That's our story. When I was watching I was thinking that's it, that's what I've been through, now the whole country will understand. Augustino Ting Morter Mayai, Sudanese youth, Salt Lake City.