Documentary Film Reviews - Tuesday, July 15, 2008 0:14 - 0 Comments

Documentary Film In Review: War Dance

Synopsis

Over the course of three months, the film’s creative team follows the three youngsters, Rose, a 13-year-old choir singer; Nancy, a 14-year-old dancer; and Dominic, a 14-year-old xylophone player, as they prepare for Uganda’s annual National Music Competition in Kampala, a world a way from their war ravished displacement camp of Patongo.

Proud members of the Acholi tribe, the children (in addition to 65,000 other children and adults) living in the remote northern Uganda refugee camp of Patongo, which is under military protection from the Lord’s Resistance Army, a terrorist group that has been rebelling against the government for the past two decades.

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