Clooney Pipes Up for Darfur Doc
Glad to see George Clooney finally making something of his life.
The Oscar-winning do-gooder has signed on to narrate and executive produce an HBO documentary on his cause célèbre, the Darfur crisis.
Sand and Sorrow will chronicle both the historical events that led to the Sudan region's current state of crisis as well as the international community's slow reaction in responding to the genocide.
In addition to setting the historical context, the documentary will also follow several prominent newsmakers, though not Clooney himself, as they travel to Darfur. Human-rights activist John Pendergrast, Harvard professor Samantha Power and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof all head to the refugee camps set up along the Chad-Sudan border, while author and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, Senators Barack Obama and Sam Brownback and rebel leader Minni Minawi all contribute interviews to the film.
The documentary was directed, produced, written and edited by Paul Freedman.
His participation in the documentary is the latest in Clooney's ongoing devotion to the crisis.
Earlier this year, Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Don Cheadle teamed up to parlay the hype from Ocean's Thirteen into aid for victims of the ongoing genocide, hosting a series of screenings prior to the film's premiere to raise funds for the International Rescue Committee (IRC), which has helped more than 2 million Sudanese refugees displaced by the conflict.
The Clooney-led group also founded its own organization, Not On Our Watch, which partnered with the IRC to raise awareness about the plight.
In April 2006, the actor backed up his stance by taking a trip to the border area with his father Nick, meeting with survivors in a refugee camp and recording their stories for another documentary that aired in January of this year.
Sand and Sorrow airs on HBO this December.
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