Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

We are the ones / a film by Michael Skinner, Jon Michael Shink ; Pendragwn Productions presents ; in association with IFP ; directed by Michael Skinner and Jon Michael Shink

Publisher, Date:

[Washington, D.C.] : Pendragwn Productions, [2015]

Description:

1 videodisc (62 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

NTSC

video file DVD video

Summary:

"Francis grew up with little schooling during the Sudanese Civil War. Ajak is a Lost Boy who has returned to the tribe he fled as a child. Both men are protégés of Glenn, a grizzled, but brilliant American surgeon. We Are the Ones follows these healers as they fight to prevent illness and mend wounds in the world's newest country. After long-running tribal divides erupt into violent raids that threaten their villages and clinics, these men embark on a journey to protect their patients and bring peace to their people."--Description from case.

Subjects:

Abraham, Ajak.

Gai, Francis.

Geelhoed, Glenn W., 1942-

Public health -- South Sudan.

Medical care -- South Sudan.

Surgeons -- South Sudan.

Physicians -- South Sudan.

Medical assistance -- South Sudan.

Social service -- South Sudan.

Human rights -- South Sudan.

South Sudan -- Social aspects.