Darfur Now and The Devil Came on Horseback, both focusing on the ongoing Darfur crisis, will screen as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 27th annual "Contemporary Documentaries" series on Wednesday, April 15, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission is free.
Darfur Now is a call for people everywhere to take action against the human tragedies taking place in Darfur, Sudan. Director Theodore Braun and producer Cathy Schulman will be present to take questions from the audience following the screening.
Directed by Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern, The Devil Came on Horseback depicts the events in Darfur through the eyes of an American marine who has since tried to spread the word about the atrocities he witnessed.
The 27th annual Contemporary Documentaries series continues through June 3. The series showcases feature-length and short documentaries nominated for the 2007 Academy Awards, as well as "other important and innovative films considered by the Academy that year."
All films will screen at the Linwood Dunn Theater at the Academy’s Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. All seating is unreserved.
The Linwood Dunn Theater is located at 1313 Vine Street in Hollywood. Free parking is available through the entrance on Homewood Avenue (one block north of Fountain Avenue). For additional information, visit www.oscars.org or call (310) 247-3600.
This book provides an insight of what the outside world is ignoring. The images are touching and fills my heart with anger as the international communities are turning a blind eye into this barbarican and inhumane genocide. We have to act now or else more people are going to die.
Two very powerful films. I can't recommend them enough.