Megan also directed Batidania on Brazilian resistance music. Her film, Lost Boys of Sudan, co-directed with Jon Shenk, was nominated for two national Emmys and won an Independent Spirit Award. She directed and produced the Oscar-winning film Smile Pinki broadcast on HBO. She is currently directing a documentary on race relations in Brazil. Is a New York-based documentary filmmaker whose work has been recognized with an Academy Award, Emmy-nominations, Independent Spirit Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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The film was broadcast nationally on the PBS series POV in the fall of 2004 and earned two national Emmy nominations.Īn extensive national outreach campaign has brought Lost Boys of Sudan to thousands of community settings to build awareness and support for refugees and the crisis in Darfur, Sudan. Lost Boys of Sudan directed by Megan Mylan and Jon Shenk, won an Independent Spirit Award and screened theatrically in 70 cities across the U.S. With the abundance and alienation of contemporary American suburbia. Safe at last from physicalĭanger and hunger, a world away from home, they find themselves confronted Remarkably, they were chosen to come to America. Lion attacks and militia gunfire to reach a refugee camp in Kenya along with
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On an extraordinary journey from Africa to America. Lost Boys of Sudan is an Emmy-nominated feature-length documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees