General information

Call No.:

392-1-1:8/1

Part of series

HU OSA 392-1-1 Video Recordings of WITNESS: Activist films of Witness: Documentary films and promotional videos of Witness

Located at

DVD-ROM #8 / No. 1

Digital ver. identifier

HU OSA 392-1-1_008

Date of production

2000

Date

2000

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

English

Duration

9 min.

Notes

Partner: WITNESS / Chris Ho & Greg Shapley

Content

Form/Genre

Documentary film

Contents Summary

This chilling feature, shot by WITNESS partner Jimmie Briggs, tells the story of Acholi school girls from St. Mary's College in Northern Uganda who were abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army to serve as child soldiers. Of the 250,000 child soldiers worldwide, many are used as sexual servants, spies, porters and frontline grunts. These unwilling combatants often find themselves subject to disease, physical assault and rape. Witness interviews one of the girls who escaped and survived the ordeal, and a teacher and assistant headmistress at St. Mary's College. The headmistress, Sister Rachele Fassera, recounts the night of her students' abduction and the torturous process of trying to secure their release. Music by Philip Glass.

Context

Associated Names

Ho, Chris (Copyright holder, Producer)

Shapley, Greg (Copyright holder, Producer)

WITNESS (Copyright holder, Producer)