NOWADAYS, CBS and BBC are partners. These two film documentaries were produced by CBS 9-10 years ago. In Sudan, war raged then like it does now and has done over past 60+ years. Some things have changed: access to clean safe water is nowa human right, access to an education is a human right. Governments have these responsibilities and must be held to account.
CBS News 60 Minutes TV documentary
By Bob Simon Broadcast 10 years ago
The Lost Boys, part one
Apr 1, 2013
Bob Simon first met the Lost Boys in a Kenyan refugee camp in 2001 after they had fled civil war in the Sudan. Some of the young men were relocated to the U.S. -- how are they doing now?
NOTE from Sudan Watch Ed: Here is the opener to the film The Good Lie:
"In 1983, a brutal civil war broke out in Sudan between the North and the South over religion and resources, leaving villages destroyed by northern government armies and militia.
By 1987, thousands of orphaned children began to flee on foot across sub-Saharan Africa, walking as many as a thousand miles to Ethiopia and then Kenya. Thirteen years later, 3600 refugees would be relocated to the U.S.A. They were known simply as “The Lost Boys of Sudan.”
This film is inspired by their story."
Emmanuel Jal plays the role of Paul. As if he and the others hadn't gone through enough already, in the USA the film's writer, Margaret Nagle plus ALCON and IMAGINE heartlessly tried to deprive them of their full earnings for the film. See below 'Copyright and fraud lawsuit'. Thank God, they won!
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures (United States) Summit Entertainment (International). Running time 110 minutes [3]. Countries: United States[4], India[1]. Language: English. Box Office: £3.2 million[5].
Copyright and fraud lawsuit
In February 2015, the Foundation for Lost Boys and Girls of Sudan, Inc., acting on behalf of 54 Sudanese refugees, filed a lawsuit in Georgia against writer Margaret Nagle, Alcon Entertainment and Imagine Entertainment. The suit claimed that the refugees were joint authors of the stories they had told Nagle in interviews that she had recorded and used to write the story. It also asserted that a joint venture agreement had been breached, with fraud and other issues arising from a promise of compensation from a producer.
The US District Judge initially granted the defendants' motion to dismiss but allowed the suit to be refiled if the plaintiffs subsequently and successfully registered copyright of the interviews.
The court ultimately found that the refugees' statements supported the finding of copyright infringement and a permanent injunction on the movie. Before the case could be concluded, however, the plaintiffs' claims were settled out of court.[12][13][14]
