Clooney's Docu on Darfur to Air Monday
By DESMOND BUTLER, Associated Press Writer
Thursday, January 11, 2007
(01-11) 10:44 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) --
Previously unseen footage recorded by actor George Clooney and his journalist father, Nick, while traveling to the border of the war-ravaged Darfur region of Sudan will be aired Monday.
"A Journey to Darfur," which will be broadcast on AmericanLife TV Network, recounts the trip they made in April with a photographer and another family member, flying by small plane into Sudan and visiting a village just outside the Darfur border.
At the documentary's premiere Wednesday attended by members of Congress and Martin Luther King III, the Clooneys — with George speaking by video conference from California — discussed their film and their concern that governments are not doing enough to stop what the younger Clooney called the first genocide of the 21st century.
"I will remember forever how the people there were hanging from such a thin thread and there were so many ways for them to die and yet they were optimistic," George Clooney told the audience.
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Nick Clooney said he has been affected by the story of a woman he met on the trip. She told him of fleeing an attack on her village by government planes and militias with her three children. She was able to run with her baby in her arms, and her 13-year-old son keeping up and her 6-year-old son behind.
"She said she called to the 6-year-old as she ran, and heard his voice become more and more faint," he recalled. The woman had not seen the child since, he said.
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