NYC Screening of THE HEART OF NUBA - August 21, 2018 (Upper West Side)

[E. Wei]

Please share with your friends in the NYC area. Thank you!

Eileen Weiss

NY Coalition for Sudan

(Apologies in advance for any duplicate emails - we are sending to our multiple lists.)

THE HEART OF NUBA
Occupy the Roof Documentary Film Series
(followed by a short panel discussion with Congregation B'nai Jeshurun Social Action Committee members and Magid Kabash from the Nuba Mountain region of Sudan)

Tuesday, August 21, 2018 at
Congregation B'nai Jeshurun
270 West 89th Street
Rooftop

To reserve your ticket, please go to https://www.bj.org/2018/05/occupy-the-roof/
and click on "register now."

Sponsored by Panim—BJ's Social Action Social Justice Group, this film series will celebrate stories of people who shine a light on justice in a changing world.

Doors at 7:00PM, movie begins 7:45-8:00PM. Feel free to bring a dairy/vegetarian picnic dinner to enjoy on the roof before the screening begins. Light refreshments will be served.

For info on The Heart of Nuba:  https://theheartofnuba.com/official-trailer/

Movie • 1 hr 24 min 36 sec • Documentary

ONE DOCTOR. ONE HOSPITAL. ONE MILLION PATIENTS.

Welcome to the war-torn Nuba Mountains of Sudan, where American doctor Tom Catena selflessly and courageously serves the needs of a forgotten people, as the region is bombed relentlessly by an indicted war criminal, Omar Al-Bashir. Two things remain constant: Dr. Tom’s faith and his enduring love for the Nuba people.

 SYNOPSIS

Dr. Tom Catena’s patients come to him from hundreds of miles away on foot, in carts, or often cradled in their mother’s arms. Welcome to the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, an area of the world so void of humanitarian and media attention that years of war go ignored, and cries for help go largely unheard. Here, this lone American surgeon tends with equal compassion to patients ranging from malnutrition and leprosy, to grave wounds inflicted by the indiscriminate bombings ordered by their own president, Omar al-Bashir. When a government can attack defenseless men, women and children with supersonic bombers,and it doesn’t make anyone’s newswire, something is terribly awry.

The only surgeon within 200 miles, ‘Dr. Tom’ does his best to save lives in the midst of carnage and terror, treating as many as 400 patients a day at Mother of Mercy Hospital, nestled in the heart of the Nuba Mountains. The region is the latest target of Omar al-Bashir, a man wanted by the International Criminal Court for committing crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur. Surrounded by a country at war, living under the constant shadow of aerial bombardment, Dr. Tom and his mostly local staff defy Bashir’s ban on humanitarian aid, and work tirelessly to serve the Nuba people. This population of one million Muslims, Christians, Animists and Africans of traditional belief have lived together harmoniously for centuries. Now, together with Dr. Tom Catena, they struggle to survive.

[E. Wei]

Reminder - TONIGHT is this event, rain or shine.  (Note: We have a few complimentary tickets ...please contact me directly and I can add your name to the list.)

Please share with your friends in the NYC area. Thank you!

Eileen Weiss

NY Coalition for Sudan

(Apologies in advance for any duplicate emails - we are sending to our multiple lists.)

THE HEART OF NUBA
Occupy the Roof Documentary Film Series

(followed by a short panel discussion with Congregation B'nai Jeshurun Social Action Committee members and Magid Kabashi from the Nuba Mountain region of Sudan)

Tuesday, August 21, 2018 at
Congregation B'nai Jeshurun
270 West 89th Street

Co-Sponsored by The Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew

To reserve your ticket, please go to https://www.bj.org/2018/05/occupy-the-roof/
and click on "register now."

Sponsored by Panim—BJ's Social Action Social Justice Group, this film series will celebrate stories of people who shine a light on justice in a changing world.

Doors at 7:00PM, movie begins @8:00PM.  Film is 1 hour & 24 minutes.  The full event ends at 10pm.  Feel free to bring a dairy/vegetarian picnic dinner to enjoy on the roof before the screening begins. Light refreshments will be served.