Sudan and USA / 2020 / 67mins / Documentary / Arabic and English

After months of protests across Sudan in 2019, Omar al-Bashir’s three decade long dictatorship was put to an end by a coup d'état. But that summer, the military attacked civilians pursuing a peaceful transition to democracy by raiding a sit-in and severing access to the internet. An ocean away, Sudanese-American poets and musicians gather in major American cities to perform in support of the revolution. As the children of families who emigrated from Sudan decades ago, they engage in an absorbing dialogue around identity, belonging, and uncertainties about Sudan’s future.

Bentley Brown

Bentley Brown is a producer and director from Dallas, Texas. In 1999, at the age of 11, he moved with his family to Chad. Since 2004, Brown and his soccer teammate Abakar Chene Massar have been working together as filmmakers. He holds an MA in communication, culture and technology from Georgetown University and a BA in international studies from Emory University. From 2015 to 2018 he taught filmmaking and interactive media in Saudi Arabia's first university-level filmmaking program, where he also began an underground film screening series and worked on several feature films. Working frequently in Arabic, French, he is currently enrolled in a PhD program in Emergent Technologies and Media Art Practice at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Learn More