Gabriel Deng, Koor Garang and Garang Mayuol, Southern Sudanese "Lost Boys" in the U.S., were forced to flee Sudan as children when their villages were attacked in 1987, finding safety for a time in a refugee camp in Ethiopia until needing to flee once more, this time to Kakuma camp in Kenya. Since leaving Sudan, they have scarcely been able to obtain news about their villages or families.
Jen Marlowe and Samuel Mayoul Garang interviewed about their trip to Sudan
Published August 16, 2007
In May 2007 filmmaker Jen Marlowe and journalist David Morse accompanied several southern Sudanese 'lost boys' back to their homes. The 'lost boys' were children who were forced to flee attacks on their villages in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Jen Marlowe, the award winning director of Darfur Diaries, speaks with Jerry Fowler about the current political landscape of southern Sudan and the connections to the crisis in Darfur. Samuel Mayoul Garang, one of the 'lost boys,' highlights his experience as a refugee living in the United States, his reunion with his family after 20 years of separation, and his future plans to start a school in southern Sudan.
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Materials for teachers and students ahead of filmmaker Jen Marlowe's visit.
A documentary by Chicago students working with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and Free Spirit Media.
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Jen Marlowe traveled to Darfur with two colleagues to make the documentary Darfur Diaries: Message from Home. Her second feature length film is the award-winning Rebuilding Hope: Sudan's Lost Boys...
