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Making Movies to Change the World
By Mark Moring
Submitted: 5/5/2009
When Hollywood's stars hit the red carpet for the Academy Awards on February 22, glitz and glamour — and blockbuster movies — will get the most airtime. And the whole world will be watching.
Well, not all of it. A group of women in Sudan, far removed from the bling and bright lights, will be doing something far more significant: going door to door in a quest to garner one million signatures for a petition demanding peace in their war-torn country.
Yes, there is a connection between those two paragraphs, because in a way, the former led to the latter. An award-winning movie stirred those Sudanese women to take a stand, as they had just seen others do on the big screen.
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