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Pray the devil back to hell 2008 plot summary imdb. Gini retickers documentary film pray the devil back to hell chronicles around a group of fearless women who come together, putting away religious differences to work tirelessly to end a bloody civil war and restore peace in their country of liberia. 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. Pray the devil back to hell national catholic reporter. Pray the devil back to hell is overly conventional as a documentary, but its inspiring as a rebuttal to the declining state of the world at large. No, pray the devil back to hell is not the title of wes cravens latest film. How can i book one of the filmmakers for a screening or event. Recently we watched pray the devil back to hell in english class.
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The film premiered at the 2008 tribeca film festival. Unsung heroines of liberia, making guns yield to words. Pray the devil back to hell is a documentary that tells the story of women of liberia mass action for peace, a womens peace movement in liberia that eventually ended the second liberian civil war 19992003 fought between the army controlled by thenpresident charles taylor and the rebelling forces loyal to a variety of warlords. Pray the devil back to hell is the astonishing story of the liberian women who took on the warlords and regime of dictator charles taylor in the midst of a brutal civil war, and won a once unimaginable peace for their shattered country in 2003. With janet johnson bryant, etweda cooper, vaiba flomo, leymah gbowee. In this movie the women of liberia show the world that a determined group of women, who take rightful ownership of their citizenry, can change the course of a nation. Pray the devil back to hell chronicles the story of the liberian women who came together to end war and bring peace to their country. Pray the devil back to hell includes interviews, archival images, and scenes of presentday liberia, and recounts the experiences and memories of the women who were instrumental in. Praying the devil back to hell in abigail disneys 2008 film pray the devil back to hell, directed by gini reticker, a liberian woman named leymah gbowee organizes a peace movement called women of liberia mass action for peace in an attempt to obtain a peaceful end to liberias civil war. 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. A literary analysis of pray the devil back to hell by abigail. Pray the devil back to hell is a documentary that tells the story of women of liberia mass action for peace, a womens peace movement in liberia that eventually ended the second liberian civil war 19992003 fought between the army controlled by then.
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Pray the devil back to hell won the jury prize for best documentary at the 2008 tribecca film festival. Pray the devil back to hell is the gripping account of a group of brave and visionary women who demanded peace for liberia, a nation torn to shreds by a decades old civil war. For more information on pray the devil back to hell, visit the films website. In pray the devil back to hell, which first aired on june 19, 2009, bill moyers journal profiles leymah gbowee, a woman who led her fellow countrywomen to fight for and win peace in wartorn liberia, and abigail disney, who produced the documentary of their struggle and triumph.
Kennedy profile in courage award ceremony leymah gbowee and abigail e. Retickers documentary concerns the 2003 efforts of that countrys women to bridge boundaries of faith and brave threats of death and worse by banding. By finding power and wielding it peacefully, the women of liberia set a global example that through devoted, nonviolent actions the course of history can be altered. Rather, it is a documentary where the horrors are all too real in the brutal liberian civil war, started in 1989 to. Nov 10, 2011 pray the devil back to hell tells the powerful and uplifting story of the liberian women, including activist and social worker leymah gbowee, who joined together and peacefully protested, helping end the civil war ravaging their country. Pray the devil back to hell chronicles the remarkable story of the liberian women who came together to end a bloody civil war and bring peace to their shattered country. From academy awardnominated director gini reticker and acclaimed producer abigail e. Dec 12, 2008 pray the devil back to hell is history that was generally overlooked in 2003, when a small number of liberian women risked their lives in a quest to end their countrys war. The new documentary, pray the devil back to hell, tells the extraordinary story of a group of liberian women who banded together to end their nations second bloody civil. Pray the devil back to hell documents a rarity these days a national tragedy with a happy ending. Janet johnson bryant, etweda cooper, vaiba flomo, leymah gbowee, asatu bah kenneth, etty weah liberias white clad heroines.
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T he greatest respect gini retickers pray the devil back to hell pays to its warbattered liberian subjects is simply an unwillingness to embellish, in any way, their astounding story. 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. If this were a fictional hollywood movie, it would be criticized for being too upbeat. Organized by social worker leymah gbowee, the movement started with praying and singing in a fish market. Pray the devil back to hell tells the remarkable story of nobel peace prize winner leymah gbowee and the courageous liberian women who came together to. Pray the devil back to hell is the story of how an entire country went from madness to sanity, prodded by women who would not be denied. Since we planted an interracial church in the inner city of chicago in 1968, during the height of the civil rights movement and the rise of the black panther movement and the massive demonstrations around the antivietnam war protest, the concept of people power has.
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