TED BRAUN (Writer/Director) spent the first four months of 2007 in Sudan filming Darfur Now with unprecedented access to the internally displaced people of Darfur, international aid workers, the government and the rebels. He has written and directed award winning documentaries and fictional films for HBO, PBS, A&E and The Discovery Channel on subjects ranging from the historical Jesus to test pilots of aviation's golden age to his most recent film, We're Here To Speak For Justice, which chronicled the battle for civil rights of California's developmentally disabled citizens. His documentary on the first Gulf War for U.S. News & World Report was A&E's highest rated original documentary in 1991. Darfur Now is his first theatrical documentary.
Not that long ago, in March of this year, I was in Geneina, capital of West Darfur, a city of red dirt roads without an inch of asphalt at the edge of a country consumed by tragedy. Like so many places in Africa, this part of Sudan cries out for...
Posted November 12, 2007 | 09:52 PM (EST)