- A team of activists use theater to help Ugandan teens share their story of resilience through a childhood of terror caused by Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army.
- Uganda has seen over two decades of a brutal rebel war. 900,000 children have been affected by this conflict. This documentary takes you on a journey with 14 of them.
"Staging Hope: Acts of Peace in Northern Uganda" tells the riveting story of a cross-cultural collaboration between a group of American actors and a group of Ugandan teenagers as they work together on a theater program in war-torn northern Uganda. "Staging Hope" documents the theater program in Uganda as well as the realities of life in the camps for the youth. The result is a compelling feature length documentary with personal accounts, live performances, music and dance.
In the summer of 2007, the Voices of Uganda team traveled to an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in northern Uganda and worked with 14 Ugandan youth on a theater program. Many of the teens had escaped from the rebel army after being abducted as child soldiers or sex slaves. The youth worked tirelessly during the program.
Playwright Winter Miller collaborated with the young people to turn their personal stories into short plays about HIV/AIDS, peace building and reconciliation. These plays gave the teens the opportunity to share their voices and their stories with over 1,000 people in their internally displaced persons camp. "Staging Hope" gives these teens the opportunity to share their voices and their stories with the world.
Currently, these plays are reaching an American audience as students, professional actors and volunteers all over the United States are performing these readings.
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By what name was After Kony: Staging Hope (2011) officially released in Canada in English?
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