2013 Napa Valley Film Fest Announces Lineup & Tribute to John Lee Hancock
Also new is the 'Power Lunch: Celebrating Women Making a Difference in Film' on November 16, which will be co-hosted by NVFF and More magazine. It will honor the women behind the film honor Oscar-award winning filmmaker Freida Mock, director of Anita, and Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe, whom is the subject of the film Sewing Hope. Chef Catherine Bergen of C Casa will prepare a three-course meal, and wine will be provided courtesy of Women of the Vine, a local organization that promotes women in winemaking.
"SEWING HOPE" http://www.sisterrosemary.com/
(Documentary of Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe's life)
Trailer to this incredible documentary can be found at the link below:
http://vimeo.com/64819815
Sewing Hope is a documentary film about an incredible Ugandan nun named Sister Rosemary who opened a school for young girls who were abducted and abused by Joseph Kony and his infamous Lord’s Resistance Army. Sister Rosemary is traveling from Uganda to attend the screening, and will also be the guest of honor at a New Power Lunch: Celebrating Women Who Are Making a Difference to be held Saturday, November 16.
Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe's documentary film about her life - "SEWING HOPE" is an official selection of the 2013 Napa Valley Film Festival. A companion book by Reggie Whitten will be released in November.
On one of the first Pros for Africa trips, Oklahoma City documentary filmmaker Derek Watson interviewed Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe, and several girls from Saint Monica’s Vocational School in Gulu, Uganda.
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"SEWING HOPE"
(Documentary of Sister Rosemary's life)
DIRECTOR / PLAYWRIGHT: Derek Watson
PRODUCER: Rachelle Newman-Whitten (Founder of Sisters United - http://www.sistersunited.com/)
NARRATED BY: Forest Whitaker
Reggie Whitten / Founder of PROS FOR AFRICA http://www.prosforafrica.com/
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"SEWING HOPE" http://www.sisterrosemary.com/
(Documentary of Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe's life)
Trailer to this incredible documentary can be found at the link below:
http://vimeo.com/64819815
About Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe: Sister Rosemary --- the 2007 recipient of CNN's International Hero is still 'making-a-difference' in Uganda.
See CNN story -
For the last 30 years, Sister Rosemary and the other Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
based in Juba, South Sudan, have answered the call to serve the least among them from
the heart of a bloody and violent civil war that decimated northern Uganda and South
Sudan.
They openly defied Joseph Kony and the rebel soldiers and commanders of the Lord’s
Resistance Army in their 20-year reign of terror. Since 2002, they have helped more than
2,000 girls who had been previously abducted by the LRA or abandoned by their families.
About Pros for Africa / Sisters United:
Founded by Reggie Whitten and Rachelle Newman-Whitten
“EMPOWERING WOMEN ONE STITCH AT A TIME”
The scars are still there but together we are stitching a future of hope and dignity.
Forest Whitaker on twitter / twitpics recording the narrative of
"SEWING HOPE"
The story of Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe
OUR MISSION
“EMPOWERING WOMEN ONE STITCH AT A TIME”
The scars are still there but together we are stitching a future of hope and dignity.
Products distributed by Sisters United include pop tab handbags, all handmade by the young woman of one of the three schools in Africa; one in Gulu, Uganda; Atiak, Uganda and a third school in the process of being built in Torit, South Sudan. These schools are operated and led by Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe, a 2007 CNN Heroes Award Winner.
The young women who make Sisters United products are hand picked and supervised by Sister Rosemary.
Our mission is to provide these young women with a market for their hard work. Sisters United provides the materials so that these young women can make pop tab handbags, and a means to market their merchandise and earn a hand up, not a hand out. Sister Rosemary personally inspects each product for quality control and to insure that these young women have the ability to earn a living that gives them respect and dignity.
