Darfur Now

Darfur Now
Darfur Now promotional poster
Directed by	Ted Braun
Produced by	Cathy Schulman Don Cheadle Mark Jonathan Harris
Written by	Ted Braun
Starring	Don Cheadle Luis Moreno-Ocampo Adam Sterling Sheikh Ahmad Mohammed Abakar Hejewa Adam Pablo Recalde
Music by	Graeme Revell
Cinematography	Kirsten Johnson
Editing by	Edgar Burcksen Leonard Feinstein
Distributed by	Warner Independent Pictures Participant Productions
Release date(s)	November 2, 2007
Running time	98 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Darfur Now is a 2007 documentary film examining the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. It was written and directed by Ted Braun and produced by Don Cheadle, Mark Jonathan Harris and Cathy Schulman. Executive Producers were Jeffrey Skoll and Omar Amanat.^[1] The film is a call to action for people all over the world to help the ongoing crisis in Darfur.

Darfur Now premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival.^[2] The film was released in the United States and Canada on November 2, 2007.

Summary

Darfur Now follows the story of six individuals, who are tied together by the same cause: the crisis in Darfur. These individuals include Don Cheadle, an Oscar-nominated actor using his celebrity status to draw attention to the issue, as well as Adam Sterling, a 24-year-old waiter and activist urging Governor Schwarzenegger to sign a bill to keep California funds from investing in companies with interests in Sudan, and Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. Then there's the ones actually situated in Darfur: Hejewa Adam, a woman whose baby was beaten to death by Janjaweed attackers who now fights in the Sudanese Liberation Army; Ahmed Mohammed Abaka, a displaced builder and farmer who now serves as leader and head sheikh of a camp of 47,000 other displaced Darfurians; and Pablo Recalde, leader of the World Food Program in West Darfur.

References

1. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0988102/fullcredits
2. ^ Toronto International Film Festival 2007 - Darfur Now, Ted Braun

External links

• Darfur Now at MySpace
• Darfur Now at the Internet Movie Database
• Darfur Now at Rotten Tomatoes
• Darfur Now at Metacritic
• Darfur Now at Box Office Mojo
• Darfur Now at AllRovi