Sudan and USA / 2008 / 27mins / Documentary / English, Bari, and Dinka

The last time Lado, Mabior, and Deng saw their families, they were eight years old. This was before the war forced them to flee and re-settle in America. Flash forward 18 years. Accompanied by their adoptive Colorado mother, they undertake an extraordinary journey back to their villages in war-torn Sudan.

Patti Bonnet

Patti Bonnet is a freelance filmmaker who began her career at PBS' MacNeil / Lehrer Newshour in the Washington and Western bureaus. She has also worked in Washington, DC for the ABC News program This Week with David Brinkley and Time-Life Television's Lost Civilizations, which won a national Emmy for Best Informational Series. Bonnet's experience includes work as a production manager for the Telluride Film Festival, location specialist for the Colorado Film Commission, producer for KRON-TV in San Francisco, and coordinating producer for HDNet's World Report series. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in journalism from the University of Colorado, and a Master's degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). In 2008, Patti Bonnet co-directed the documentary Come Back to Sudan with Daniel Junge. Learn More

Daniel Junge

Daniel Junge is an Oscar award winning documentary filmmaker. His first feature-length film, Chiefs, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Tribeca Film Festival and broadcast nationally on PBS. His subsequent feature, Iron Ladies of Liberia, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and aired on over 50 broadcasters worldwide including PBS and the BBC. They Killed Sister Dorothy, his third feature film, won the Audience and Grand Jury Prizes at the South by Southwest Film Festival before broadcasting on HBO and earning a 2010 Emmy nomination for Best Investigative Journalism. Junge’s film The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short in 2010. His film Saving Face, also for HBO, won Best Documentary Short in 2012. In 2012, he was extended a membership invitation to The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Raised in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Junge is an alumnus of Cheyenne East High School and Colorado College. In 2015, Junge directed Being Evel, a documentary on the real story behind the myth of American icon Robert "Evel" Knievel and his legacy. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, broadcast on The History Channel, and was nominated for an Emmy for Best Sports Documentary in 2016. Junge also produced Liyana, a 2017 documentary following orphaned Swazi children as they create a narrative which is then brought to life using animation—and Hondros, on war photographer Chris Hondros. Junge served as Executive Producer and episode director on AMC's Secret History of Comics. Learn More