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.
Blissfest333 to Screen Rebuilding Hope
Published August 11, 2010
Event date:
September 18, 2010 - 12:00pm
Rebuilding Hope, the documentary film following three "Lost Boys" of Sudan as they return home - created by Pulitzer grantee Jen Marlowe will screen on September 18 at the Blissfest333 Arts Festival in Manitou Springs, Colorado, USA. For more information, visit the Blissfest333 website.
Project
A documentary by Chicago students working with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and Free Spirit Media.
Jen Marlowe will discuss her films Darfur Diaries and Rebuilding Hope at Vanderbilt University's Holocaust Lecture series on October 2.
