Ben Barna
November 03, 2009
You'd be forgiven for thinking the first proper movie about the humanitarian crisis happening in Darfur would go something like this: Ridley Scott or Edward Zwick direct Daniel Craig and Russell Crowe as the "rugged" foreign journalists (better at loading guns than they are at forming proper paragraphs) who travel to Sudan to report on the conflict that's been raging since 2003. Sienna Miller would play the Red Cross worker who falls for Crowe (or is it Craig?), and the whole thing will end with some stats about how many people have died so far (somewhere in the hundreds of thousands). Real life Darfur activist George Clooney would produce, it would get nominated for five Academy Awards, and win none. Well, that's not what happened at all.

