The Lost Boys of Sudan

Lost Boys of Sudan is a documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America.

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Lunenburg (NS)
Wednesday April 16, 2008
Screening begins 19h00
Venue: 3rd Floor of the Lunenburg Academy, 97 Kaulbach Street Lunenburg

USA/ 2003/ 87 Minutes/ English and Dinka with English Subtitles

Lost Boys of Sudan is a 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 civil wars, Peter Dut and Santino Chuor survived lion 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.

“An extraordinarily rich documentary,one of the best I’ve seen!”
–Henry Sheehan, NPR’s Film Week

“A fascinating and sobering glimpse into… lives that make us re-examine our own priorities.”
–Robert Butler, Kansas City Star

Emmy Nominee
National Academy of
Television Arts & Sciences

Emmy Nominee
National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

Winner,
Independent Spirit Award

Best Documentary
Bay Area SF Int‘l Film Festival

Best Documentary,
Heartland Film Festival

LOST BOYS OF SUDAN is a co-production of Actual Films and Principe Productions in association with American Documentary

featuring
SANTINO MAJOK CHUOR
PETER NYAROL DUT

directors/producers
MEGAN MYLAN
JON SHENK

editors
KIM ROBERTS
MARK BECKER

cinematographer
JON SHENK

sound mixer
MEGAN MYLAN

executive producer
FRANCES REID

associate producers
KELLY DAVIS
BEN AJIEK AJIEK
THON DENG
JOE HARRISON
MARIO MAKOL
VICKY MAULEÓN

additional cinematography
MICHAEL CHIN
NICHOLAS DOOB
JOHNNY SYMONS
additional sound
DOUG DUNDERDALE
PETER NUBILE
BOB SULLIVAN
JOHNNY SYMONS

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