Videos from Everyone Sought for FriendsBeyondBorders Darfur Project

FriendsBeyondBorders, in association with the Crystal Awards FilmFest,
wants short internet videos from people everywhere, which will be shared
with refugees from the Darfur crisis living in temporary camps in Chad, as
well as over two-way webcams in New Guinea, Bhutan, Brazil, and an Inuit
village in northern Canada.

Iruturbi, Chad (PRWEB) April 30, 2007 -- In an effort to create real human
connections between Darfur refugees and the rest of the world,
FriendsBeyondBorders is creating a video exchange as well as a two-way
webcam hookup with a refugee camp and the rest of the world.

They want videos which express who you are, what values you live for, what
you find beautiful, funny, profound, meaningful, or uplifting.

These will be shown, via laptops carried by roving aid workers, to some of
the hundreds of thousands of refugees who have fled the fighting and
genocide in Darfur, Sudan, where 200,000 have already died. They will also
be seen by children at the U.N.'s field school at the Iruturbi refugee
camp in Chad. Two-way webcam connections are also being planned between
the camps and universities and coffee houses in Europe, North America, and
Asia (Future webcam stations are planned for a Stone Age village in New
Guinea, a marketplace in Bhutan, an Inuit village in the Yukon, a Yanomamo
Indian encampment in Brazil, Davis Research Station in Antarctica, and a
Uigur village in Mongolia).

The goal is to create human connections between refugees and real people
in the rest of the world. The refugees' immediate physical needs are met
by UNHCR, OxFam, CARE, WorldVision, and others, but this project is meant
to bolster their spirits emotionally, and create a human connection
between them and complete strangers from all over the world.

A documentary film is planned about the project, and submitted videos may
be included in it. Videos of refugees themselves will also be made, and
uploaded to the website. There is no fee to submit a video.

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