In the late 1980s, an estimated 25,0000 Sudanese lost boys arrived in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya after being separated from their families during that countrys brutal civil war. They marched thousands of miles for several years over barren desert. At Kakuma, they lived a sparse existence with no real way of locating family members. In 2001, the U.S. invited about 4000 of them, now young men, to settle in America. Christopher Quinn, a first-time filmmaker, spent over four years documenting the lives of three of these lost boys as they leave Africa and then attempt to make sense of their new country. Culture shock does not even begin to describe their initial experiences, but eventually they begin to lead normal American lives. Yet they remain deeply committed, both spiritually and monetarily, to those lost boys left behind in Kakuma and to their struggling homeland.
Written and directed by Christopher Dillon Quinn, GOD GREW TIRED OF US is narrated by Nicole Kidman and produced by Quinn and Molly Bradford. The film is executive produced by Brad Pitt, Jack Schneider and Adam Schlesinger.
Festival Screening Sunday, January 22nd 2:30PM Prospector Square Theatre Park City
Festival Screening Monday, January 23rd 5:30PM Holiday Village Cinema II Park City
Festival Screening Tuesday, January 24th 6:00PM Broadway 4 Salt Lake City
Festival Screening Wednesday, January 25th 9:15AM Holiday Village Cinema III Park City
Festival Screening Friday, January 27th 5:30PM Holiday Village Cinema II Park City
Festival Screening Saturday, January 28th 1:00PM Sundance Resort Sundance