DATE: 5 p.m. Sept. 27, 2006.

EVENT: ” Lost Boys of Sudan,” a critically acclaimed documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America, will be shown in a free screening.

The screening will be hosted by James Hathaway, director of the University’s Program in Refugee and Asylum Law, and a leading authority on international refugee protection issues. The film’s director, Megan Mylan, and local Sudanese refugees from the Lost Boys group will join him during a question and answer session after the screening. The event is part of a national outreach campaign to raise local public awareness and support for refugees and the current crisis in Darfur, Sudan.

“Lost Boys of Sudan” was broadcast nationally on PBS, won the Independent Spirit Award, and was nominated for two national Emmy awards.

The film tells the story of Santino Chuor and Peter Dut, who were orphaned in the longest-running civil war in Africa. Along with thousands of other children, they walked hundreds of miles, surviving lion attacks and militia gunfire, to reach a refugee camp in Kenya. There they were chosen to come to America, where they found themselves confronted with the abundance and alienation of contemporary American suburbia.

This event is open to the public.

PLACE: Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty. Central Campus map:

SPONSOR: U-M Law School.

CONTACT: Contact: Terra Weikel, (415) 987-9777 or Terra@LostBoysFilm.com.

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