Bring PEACE not PainTM

The Film series will sponsor screenings of independent films that will educate and inspire people, take us out of our personal, political, geographical space while tackling diverse and challenging subjects, expose us to the resilience of the human spirit and show us examples of our basic human ability to be agents of change.

If you are a Film Maker or Film Addict and have an idea for a film that you feel should be part of our series please contact us.

Past Events:

Women and War...the unseen cost of conflict

Grace Akallo - A spokesperson for children of war in northern Uganda and author of Girl Soldier .

October 9, 1996, Ugandan rebels called the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) attacked St. Mary’s College, a girls' boarding school in Aboke Town in northern Uganda, abducting 139 girls, including Akallo. Akallo and her schoolmates were marched into southern Sudan, where the LRA was based. The rebels gave her a gun and taught her how to assemble, disassemble and clean it. They told her when she got hungry enough, she’d learn how to shoot it.
Akallo was abused and forced to commit atrocities against civilians and her own fellow captives. She witnessed the fate of two children who had tried, unsuccessfully, to escape. They were brutally murdered in front of her.

Eventually, she found a small group of children who had escaped. Together they walked three days, living on soil and leaves before they found a group of villagers who cared for them and helped them return to northern Uganda. Where Akallo then finished her secondary education at St. Mary’s. She later transferred from Uganda Christian University in Kampala to Gordon College near Boston graduating in May 2007.

 November 15, 2008 - "The Betrayal"  (see events )