Duk County
Mountainfilm 2013
November 15 - 17, 2013
Filmmaker Jordan Campbell and subjects John Dau, Julie Crandall, Alan Crandall, Roger Furlong, and David Reed in person!
Mountain climbing doctor Geoff Tabin travels to South Sudan to treat hundreds of people for curable blindness, but his triumph is tainted by ongoing conflict in the region.
Screening with: The Water Tower (Peter McBride, 27m)
Filmmaker Jordan Campbell and subjects John Dau, Julie Crandall, Alan Crandall, Roger Furlong, and David Reed in person!
Mountainfilm audiences have come to know the hyper-achieving Dr. Geoff Tabin, a world-class climber who has ascended the Seven Summits and who is best known for dramatically changing the rates of curable blindness in Nepal and Rwanda. Tabin and his team from the Moran Eye Center in Park City, Utah, took their operation to South Sudan to work with John Dau (one of the original Lost Boys of Sudan whose remarkable story of survival was featured in the film God Grew Tired of Us. Duk County, which was directed by Jordan Campbell, tells the story of this collaboration in which the sight of more than 200 people was restored. Unfortunately—and perhaps inevitably—this triumph is tainted by the ongoing conflict in South Sudan.
Screening with:
The Water Tower
Peter McBride | USA | 2013 | 27m
Following his elegiac look at the plight of the Colorado River in Chasing Water (Mountainfilm 2011), filmmaker, photographer and adventurer Pete McBride turns his talents to an analogous story about the vast watershed beneath Mt. Kenya and the challenges it faces. Beautifully shot and thoughtfully written, this film paints a human portrait of climate change and frames it in forces far greater than human.
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