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War child / an 18th Street Films production ; in association with Interface Media Group and The Global Fund for Children ; a C. Karim Chrobug film ; directed by C. Karim Chrobug ; produced by C. Karim Chrobug, Afshin Molavi.
LIBRA DVD 001 808
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Niger-Kordofanian (Other)
- Subjects (All):
- Jal, Emmanuel--Childhood and youth.
- Jal, Emmanuel.
- Child soldiers--Sudan--Biography.
- Child soldiers.
- Political activists.
- Rap musicians.
- History.
- Refugees.
- Sudan--History--Civil War, 1983-2005--Personal narratives.
- Sudan.
- Sudan--History--Civil War, 1983-2005--Children--Biography.
- Sudan--History--Civil War, 1983-2005--Refugees--Biography.
- Rap musicians--Biography.
- Political activists--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographical films.
- Documentary films.
- War films.
- Propaganda films.
- Biographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- [Widescreen presentation].
- Other Title:
- Subtitle from container: New fight, a new weapon
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : North American distributor, Reel U Films, [2008]
- Language Note:
- In English and Sudanese with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1.
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- A film detailing the life of Emmanuel Jal, a victim and refugee of Sudan's civil wars. Now a successful hip-hop artist, as a seven- year-old Sudanese boy Jal was conscripted into an army as one of 10,000 child soldiers. Fighting through two separate civil wars over the course of nearly a decade, Jal survived, eventually adopted by a British aid worker. As an adult, he relates his story and his hope for peace through his activism and through popular music, recording and releasing his own work and performing with international stars.
- Participant:
- Emmanuel Jal; interviewees: Ben Parker, Dan McCarey, John Prendergast, Evans Maendeh, Ted Dagne.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, S. J. Staniski; editor, Nels Bangerter; music by Emmanuel Jal; original score, Charlie Barnett.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the documentary motion picture produced in 2008.
- Aspect ratio 16:9.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.
- OCLC:
- 405658003
- Publisher Number:
- 860381000002
- Online:
- website
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