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Lost boys of Sudan

Title:

Lost boys of Sudan

Author:

Mylan, Megan.

Shenk, Jon.

Chuor, Santino Majok.

Dut, Peter Nyarol.

Actual Films.

Principe Productions.

Summary:

"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"--Press kit.

Audience:

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Genre:

Biographical television programs.

Nonfiction films.

Personal Subject:

Chuor, Santino Majok.

Dut, Peter Nyarol.

Subject Term:

Sudanese -- Biography.

Refugees -- Biography.

Refugees -- Social conditions.

Geographic Term:

Sudan.

Author(s):

Mylan, Megan.

Shenk, Jon.

Chuor, Santino Majok.

Dut, Peter Nyarol.

Added Corporate Author:

Actual Films.

Principe Productions.

Publisher:

Lost Boys of Sudan,

Publication Date:

2003

ISBN:

9780767068154

Publication Information:

San Francisco, CA : Lost Boys of Sudan, c2003.

Call Number:

DVD 305.892 LOST

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Summary

LOST BOYS OF SUDAN follows two teenage Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America, offering a gripping and sobering peek into the myth of the American Dream. In the late Â80s, Islamic fundamentalists in Sudan waged war on the countryÂs separatists, leaving behind over 20,000 male orphans, otherwise known as "lost boys." For those who survived this traumatic ordeal and found their way to refugee camps, some were chosen to participate in a resettlement program in America Â a distant place so presumably full of hope and opportunity that the Sudanese sometimes call it Heaven. But what if a free ticket to "Heaven" turned out to be anything but? Sidestepping conventional voice-over narration in favor of real-time, close-quarters poignancy, LOST BOYS OF SUDAN focuses on Santino and Peter, members of the Dinka tribe, during their first life-altering year in the United States. Safe at last from physical danger Â but a world away from home Âthe boys must grapple with extreme cultural differences as they come to understand both the abundance and alienation of contemporary American life.

Summary

This extraordinarily rich, true-life journey follows two Sudanese refugees as they travel from Africa to America to forge a new life, all the while grappling with the unfamiliar complexities of contemporary American life.