Copyright 2026, Documentary Educational Resources https://store.der.org/sudan-c58all.aspx Sun, 20 Sep 2026 17:26:14 GMT 60 Nexternal RSS 2.0 en-us https://store.der.org/dinka-diaries-p873.aspx Product873 Thu, 30 Aug 2018 07:04:00 GMT <div style="float:left"><a class="url" href="https://store.der.org/dinka-diaries-p873.aspx"><img src="//cdn.nexternal.com/der/images/dinka-diaries.jpg" alt="Dinka Diaries" border="0" hspace="3"></a></div><span class="riRssTitle"><a href="https://store.der.org/dinka-diaries-p873.aspx">Dinka Diaries</a></span><br><a href="https://store.der.org/dinka-diaries-p873.aspx">Buy Now:</a> <span color="#990000"><b>$320.00</b></span> <br /><br /><div><div><i>Dinka Diaries</i> tells the story of some of America's most recent arrivals: Sudanese refugees who would have never dreamt a few years ago that they'd be living in America. Over the course of ten months, the film follows the lives of three Sudanese refugees who resettle in the Philadelphia area and adjust to the new American culture and way of life. <i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Dinka Diaries</i> represents an important attempt to empower refugees by giving them the opportunity to represent themselves and their experiences through film.</div><br /><br />Visit <a href="https://store.der.org/sudan-c58all.aspx">Sudan</a> to see additional products in this category.</div> https://store.der.org/they-turned-our-desert-into-fire-p321.aspx Product321 Mon, 27 Aug 2018 08:57:00 GMT <div style="float:left"><a class="url" href="https://store.der.org/they-turned-our-desert-into-fire-p321.aspx"><img src="//cdn.nexternal.com/der/images/they-turned-our-desert-into-fire.jpg" alt="They Turned Our Desert Into Fire" border="0" hspace="3"></a></div><span class="riRssTitle"><a href="https://store.der.org/they-turned-our-desert-into-fire-p321.aspx">They Turned Our Desert Into Fire</a></span><br><a href="https://store.der.org/they-turned-our-desert-into-fire-p321.aspx">Buy Now:</a> <span color="#990000"><b>$320.00</b></span> <br /><br /><div>Reporting the devastation, forced displacement, and genocide in Darfur should be a story with daily coverage. The mere mention of the word "Darfur" should set off a passionate exchange, or at least the question, "What can be done?" Unfortunately, the people of Darfur struggle with a problem common to so many victimized by geopolitical realities: how to overcome the willful indifference of powerful government and media interests who find their story unimportant or merely inconvenient.&nbsp;<div><br /></div><div>With images and first-hand accounts, filmmaker Mark Brecke shares his experience of the Darfur crisis with Amtrak train passengers journeying eastward on a three day trip to Washington D.C. Their reactions, interwoven with hard facts and expert opinion, raise the central questions in <i>They Turned Our Desert Into Fire: </i>why does the public not understand the severity of this crisis, and how can the world continue to do nothing?&nbsp;</div><div><br /></div><div>In addition to the film and a slideshow of Brecke's photographs, this DVD also contains the short film <i>War as a Second Language</i> (27 min, 2002). Mark Brecke culled from 15 years of newsreels, documentaries, and raw footage of the Vietnam War to create an audio track which he then juxtaposed with moving and still images he shot in Vietnam and Cambodia in 1995. Tourists replace soldiers and the audio design becomes a haunting and evocative narrative about the history and legacies of war.</div><div><br /></div><div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div>“One of the best films I have seen all year.”</div><div>&nbsp;— Sara Carden, Producer, CNN International / Inside Africa</div><div><br /></div><div>“The most sincere film on Darfur today.”&nbsp;</div><div>— Jennifer Clibbon, Producer, CBC News, Our World</div></div><div><br /></div></blockquote><hr><b>SELECTED SCREENINGS &amp; AWARDS</b></div><div>Addis International Film Festival, Ethiopia, 2010</div><div><div>Santa Cruz Film Festival, CA, 2009</div><div>National Geographic Theater, Washington DC, 2009</div></div><div>South American Seminar on Promotion of Equality, Bahia, Brazil, 2009</div><div><div><i>Official Selection</i>, Sarasota Film Festival, 2008</div><div>Global Peace Film Festival, 2008</div><div><i>Best Feature</i>,&nbsp;Human Rights, Artivist Film Festival, 2008</div><div>BendFilm, 2008</div><div><i>Best Documentary</i>, São Paulo International Film Festival, 2007</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><br /><br />Visit <a href="https://store.der.org/sudan-c58all.aspx">Sudan</a> to see additional products in this category.</div> https://store.der.org/through-the-negev-p330.aspx Product330 Mon, 27 Aug 2018 08:57:00 GMT <div style="float:left"><a class="url" href="https://store.der.org/through-the-negev-p330.aspx"><img src="//cdn.nexternal.com/der/images/through-the-negev.jpg" alt="Through the Negev" border="0" hspace="3"></a></div><span class="riRssTitle"><a href="https://store.der.org/through-the-negev-p330.aspx">Through the Negev</a></span><br><a href="https://store.der.org/through-the-negev-p330.aspx">Buy Now:</a> <span color="#990000"><b>$295.00</b></span> <br /><br /><div>Told through interwoven first-person accounts by the few women and children who have made the journey by walking from Egypt to Israel, <i>Through the Negev</i> is a short documentary that encapsulates the refugees' struggle for home and safety.&nbsp;<div><br /></div><div>The documentary gives voice to women and children not often represented in stories about Sudan. We speak to 10-year old Naka and her mother Natalina, who escaped religious persecution in Southern Sudan. We meet '<g class="gr_ gr_12 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="12" data-gr-id="12">Ahmul</g>', an Arab Muslim student activist who fled Sudan after being tortured for attempting to start a student union. We encounter Affaf from Darfur, who misses her husband. And we meet Ida, a powerful orator who convinces us that home is a universal human right. Caught in complicated geographic, religious and political webs, the simplicity of their message becomes even more powerful.&nbsp;</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Please note that at the time of filming, the U.N. had recommended protecting the identity of adult refugees who have not yet been resettled. Though their faces are never fully revealed, the women's intimate stories uncover the amazing strength and resiliency of people fighting for a home.</i>&nbsp;</div><div><br /></div><div><hr><br /></div><div><b>SELECTED SCREENINGS &amp; AWARDS</b></div><div><div>Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival, 2008</div><div>EASA Film, Video &amp; New Media Festival, Slovenia, 2008</div><div>International Black DocuFest, Atlanta, GA, 2008</div><div>Reel Venus Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, New York, 2008</div><div>Africa World Documentary Film Festival, St. Louis, MO, 2009</div><div>San Francisco Women's Film Festival, 2009</div><div><br /></div></div><br /><br />Visit <a href="https://store.der.org/sudan-c58all.aspx">Sudan</a> to see additional products in this category.</div>