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Plugging the gap between awareness and development in "Christmas in Darfur"

The Darfur region in Sudan, has a long and complex past, several call to action’s from Amnesty and some Jolie / Clooney documentary aid campaigns later  - it seems little has changed, the atrocities continue, and the war worsens.

I caught the major low-budget documentary Christmas in Darfur the other day, which follows the trials of amateur filmmakers  Jim Milak (an IT guy), Jason Mojica (a waiter), and Ryan Faith (a policy worker) as they attempt to document aid workers’ experiences during the Christmas holidays  in the war-torn western African desert. The gap between the global attention on the area and the amount of help being actually received is central to the film’s theme.

With zero experience in filmmaking, and no connections or experience of the African sub-continent, the filmmakers adopt a guileless approach that takes us deep into the refugee camps of Chad and Sudan and eventually to a dialogue with rebel fighters.

Watch the documentary online here, where you can also donate to the filmmakers who are still trying to recoup the costs of making this self-funded project.