Emmanuel Habimana, a survivor of the 1994 Tutsi genocide in Rwanda and co-director of the upcoming documentary, "The Children Who Lived," will speak from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Dec. 2 in the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center, room 212.
Natalia Ledford, who co-directed the film, will also attend the event. The film is funded through a National Geographic Young Explorers Grant.
Habimana and Ledford joined forces to research and film the struggles and triumphs of Rwanda’s orphan community. Habimana will share his own personal story of survival — the slaughter of his parents and half his siblings when he was nine years old; and having to fend for himself while living as a servant of the Hutu militia.
The film features a series of follow-up interviews with internationally recognized figures Romeo Dallaire, Laura Lane and Carl Wilkens.
The UNL recognized student organization Education for the World is organizing the event. The event is sponsored in part by grants from the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, the Pepsi Endowment Fund, the Student Affairs Division—which includes Campus Recreation, Nebraska Unions, University Health Center and University Housing—and the Pepsi Diversity Program Fund.
Ledford wrote, directed and produced "Paths of the Displaced," a 2009 documentary profiling the lives of five of her high school peers in Lincoln, Neb., who had traveled from Sudan as refugees after being displaced by a civil war that took over 3,000,000 lives and raged for 20 years. She is studying journalism and international studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
View the film's trailer
http://go.unl.edu/the_children_who_lived
Listen to Ledford and Habimana on National Geographic Radio, June 25, 2011
http://is.gd/Qo7OB0
More details at: http://go.unl.edu/4r7