| Filmmakers Expose The Devil In Darfur |
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 The Devil Came on Horsebackdirected by Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern While serving six months as an unarmed military observer with the African Union in Darfur, Sudan, former U.S. Marine Captain Brian Steidle had access no journalist was afforded. Unable to intervene, he took thousands of uncompromising photographs that documented the genocide, then resigned his post and dedicated himself to exposing the magnitude of these atrocities. Watch our interview with Brian Steidle and directors Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg During that time, Steidle had access to parts of the country that no journalist could penetrate. Unprepared for the atrocities he witnessed and unable to intervene, this 27-year-old military veteran began recording what he saw with his camera, pen and paper. Brian spent over a year in Sudan, six months of that in Darfur, gathering evidence of the emerging crisis and amassing over 1,000 uncompromising photographs. Determined to end the violence that has left 400,000 dead and forced more than two million from their homes, and stymied by the bureaucratic inaction of the international community, Steidle resigned his post and returned to the U.S. There he began contacting journalists like Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times to show them his photographs, and in early 2005, award-winning filmmakers Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern began to collaborate with Brian as he planned his return to Africa - the refugee camps in Chad. On this journey, Brian made the decision to speak to people all around the world about what he had seen. Drawing on the haunting photographs of a witness, this unique and inspiring documentary is an amazing record of the potential of one individual who, buoyed by his own sense of justice, made it his mission to shine a light on the horrors of this conflict and force the world to take notice. |
