Darfur Now


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 included Jeffrey Skoll, Omar Amanat, Dean Schramm, Diane Weyermann, and Matt Palmieri. The film is a call to action for people all over the world to help the ongoing crisis in Darfur.

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 Oscarnominated actor using his celebrity status to draw attention to the issue, as well as Adam Sterling, a 24yearold waiter and activist urging Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign a bill to keep California funds from investing in companies with interests in Sudan, and Luis MorenoOcampo, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. Then theres 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 Abakar, 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.

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