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About Pray The Devil Back To Hell
Product Description Winner of Best Documentary award at Tribeca Film Festival and Official Section of Sundance Film Festival, "Pray the Devil Back to Hell" chronicles the remarkable story of the courageous Liberian women who came together to end a bloody civil war and bring peace to their shattered country. Thousands of women ordinary mothers, grandmothers, aunts and daughters, both Christian and Muslim came together to pray for peace and then staged a silent protest outside of the Presidential Palace. Armed only with white T-shirts and the courage of their convictions, they demanded a resolution to the country s civil war. Their actions were a critical element in bringing about a agreement during the stalled peace talks. A story of sacrifice, unity and transcendence, Pray the Devil Back to Hell honors the strength and perseverance of the women of Liberia. Inspiring, uplifting, and most of all motivating, it is a compelling testimony of how grassroots activism can alter the history of nations. Review Uplifting, disheartening, inspiring, enraging... --The New York Times It's a marvelous documentary detailing how the everyday became extraordinary, how ordinary women in the words of one of them, did the unimaginable. --The Los Angeles Times Remarkable --Philadelphia Inquirer About the Director Gini Reticker is one of the world's leading documentary filmmakers whose primary focus is on individuals, particularly women, engaged in struggles for social justice and human rights. Her films cover subjects often overlooked by mainstream media, such as women in war zones whose stories have largely gone untold. Her filmmaking has taken her to conflict zones around the globe, including Liberia, Rwanda, and Afghanistan. Ms. Reticker is Series Producer and Director on a groundbreaking five-part miniseries, Women, War & Peace for PBS s Wide Angle, now in production and slated for broadcast in 2011. The series challenges the conventional wisdom that war and peace are solely the domains of men, examining how war affects women and highlighting their efforts to bring about peace. Previously, Ms. Reticker directed the award-winning documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell. Produced by Abigail E. Disney, the film presents the story of Liberian women who overcame barriers of gender and politics to end their country s century-long civil war. If you don t tell the story, then it s not history; it just totally evaporates, Ms. Reticker said of this film a statement that aptly describes her work as a whole. Ms. Reticker currently sits on the board of Peace Is Loud, an organization launched from the groundswell of interest in Pray the Devil Back to Hell that supports female voices and international peace-building through nonviolent means.
