While serving with the African Union, former Marine Capt. Brian Steidle documents the brutal ethnic cleansing occuring in Darfur. Determined that the Western public should know about the atrocities he is witnessing, Steidle contacts New York Times reporter Nicholas Kristof, who publishes some of Steidle's photographic evidence.
Cinematography
Steidle's photos: amateur, devastating, irrefutable.
Direction
Stern and Sundberg let silence scream.
Director
Anne Sundberg
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Steidle's military background gave him access and credibility, but also broke him — he wasn't a journalist trained to detach.
Released in 2007 when 'Darfur' was a celebrity cause; the film captures that brief, impotent window of Western attention before Syria, before Ukraine, before the next forgetting.
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