Ted Braun Discusses Darfur Now

By Paul Tukey
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/directing/article/darfur_now_ted_braun_20080522/
The impact of his first big-screen documentary may not be fully appreciated for years. Even with Don Cheadle and George Clooney as principle characters in the 2007 film Darfur Now, it’s not easy to get moviegoers flooding to a flick about African genocide. That director Ted Braun even got the movie made, however, provides moviemakers everywhere with a lesson for the ages: Every solution begins with a conversation.