We thought our friend Jason Mojica had a fairly good head on his shoulders until he and a couple friends ordered matching bullet-proof vests and decided to go to the Chad-Sudan border to make a film about the crisis in Darfur. None of them is a swashbuckling activist, reporter, medic, or filmmaker. We’re talking waiter and office guys with too much curiosity and not enough common sense. The feature-length film is done. Far from the foibles and capers of bumbling dudes with no experience, it’s a "hey, time out everyone" kind of viewing experience. Because aren’t you wondering why the hell it doesn’t seem to matter how many pro movies get made, elementary schools hang up a banner of awareness outside the building, bags of rice an NGO throws at the problem, or politicians acknowledge the genocide, and still it continues? We are, so we watched Jason’s movie here, and we recommend you do the same. Below you’ll find some photo outtakes from the experience.
Reader Comments
December 30th, 2008
7:35 pm
is this the same guy that interviewed bernie kerik?
December 30th, 2008
9:10 pm
It was more interesting when Shane Smith went out there.
December 30th, 2008
9:12 pm
yeah, that’s him. hopefully they don’t have guard dogs in chad, lol.
December 30th, 2008
9:32 pm
There is so much horrible shit going down in Africa right now, there could be 100 docs that come out and barely scratch the surface. That said, I’m going to watch this when I get home. Thanks.
December 30th, 2008
10:05 pm
Those guys are geeks, eh?
December 30th, 2008
11:09 pm
who are you calling geeks? i’m guessing you don’t mean the guys with turbans and six-foot-long machine guns. nothing about the white dudes seems too geekish though. what? because they made a movie and use computers they’re geeks? i don’t get it.
December 30th, 2008
11:20 pm
that narrators voice is god awful, i give up
January 1st, 2009
10:35 pm
amazing, anyone know where you can get those ‘anti-ak47′ stickers from?