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Six activists illuminate ‘Darfur Now’ documentary

While the Darfur crisis enters its fifth year, the American Jewish Committee and Warner Independent Pictures have taken a lead in raising awareness of and combating the genocide in the Western Sudan region, where an estimated 200,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million displaced. For some time now, the AJC has had a national task force dedicated to Darfur, but in the past year and a half, members of the AJC\'s Los Angeles branch developed a film proposal that ultimately led to \"Darfur Now,\" a documentary from Warner Independent that follows the efforts of six people to resolve the humanitarian disaster. The film will be released in theaters on Nov. 2.

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Robert David Jaffee

October 19, 2007