Moon Over Sudan Premieres

• New Film Has Extensive Footage of Sudan Violence            

Two years before Sudan was awash in the current crisis, award-winning videographer Eddie Harris II was trekking across the barren country with the Rev. Al Sharpton, recording the turmoil that has escalated from ethnic cleansing to full-blown genocide. For the last several months, Harris has been working diligently, weaving hours of film footage into a compelling documentary "Moon Over Sudan."  There are gripping scenes of Sudanese villages that have been ravaged by the Janjaweed, "the devils on horseback," who have spared neither women nor children in their merciless raids. "We had the opportunity to see with our own eyes the result of unchecked corporate greed and the inhumanity suffered by black Africa," Harris told TBWT in a recent interview.  "I am glad I was able to capture it all on film so that I could show the rest of the world this extreme violation of human rights."  [more ]