Uganda Special Event
Cry Freetown / Exodus
9PM / Fri 28 Aug / Embassy / $15
All proceeds to be shared with Friends of Orphans,
Uganda and Atlantic Star Productions.

Two devastating doco’s in one session by Sorious Samura, a Sierra
Leone filmmaker who documented atrocities in Sierra Leone. CONTENT
WARNING: features real footage of murder and atrocity. Cry Freetown
was released in January 2000. It is a brutal and gripping portrayal
of atrocities committed during Sierra Leone’s civil war. Risking his
life to film the systematic murder of his fellow countrymen, Samura
describes what he calls “a nation that was being murdered, a country
that was dying, that was being left to die by the western world,
by the so called developed world.” Within four weeks of the film’s
transmission, plans were underway for the deployment of a UN
peacekeeping force in Sierra Leone.

In Exodus Samura traveled to Nigeria, Mali, The Sahara, Morocco
and Spain as he followed African exiles in their attempt to make
their way to the ‘promised land’ of Europe. The film saw Samura meet
some of those trying to make the journey and follows their progress,
whilst hearing of the hardships compelling them to leave their native
lands. Some local Sierra Leonians even long for a return of a new
form of Neo Colonialism.

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