Film Screening:

Refugee All Stars
(Zach Niles and Banker White, 2005, 78 min, USA, in English, Color, DVD)

The Refugee All Stars are a band of Sierra Leonean musicians who have been living as refugees in the West African nation of the Republic of Guinea. A brutal, decade long civil war (1991-2002) in Sierra Leone forced the band members from their homes. It took the lives of many of their loved ones and has left them with physical and emotional scars that may never heal. However, what the war could never take from them was their music. Through music The Refugee All Stars have found a place of refuge, a sense of purpose and a source of power. The feature length documentary film The Refugee All Stars follows the band over the course of three years as they make their way from the refugee camps back to their homes in the war-ravaged country of Sierra Leone.

Cost: Free and Open to the Public

Sponsors: The Archive for Human Rights & the Full Frame Archive in the Special Collections Library, the Duke Human Rights Center, the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image