Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to "document" reality. Although "documentary film" originally referred to movies shot on film stock, it has subsequently expanded to include video and new media productions that can be either direct-to-video or made for a televis... about twenty-year-old Lumo Sinai, a woman who fell victim to "Africa's First World War." While returning home one day, Lumo and another woman were gang-raped by a group of soldiers fighting for control of the Congo
Congo
Congo, Kongo, or Kongo may refer to:... during the 1994 Rwandan genocide
Rwandan Genocide
The Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass killing of hundreds of thousands of Rwanda's Tutsis and Hutu political moderates by Hutus under the Hutu Power ideology.... . As a result, Lumo suffered from fistula, a chronic condition that leaves a woman unable to bear children. Rejected by her fiance and most of the village, Lumo examines a woman's tragedy and the process of healing.
Lumo was directed and produced by Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt, Nelson Walker III, Louis Abelman and Lynn True and was aired as part of PBS's Point of View
P.O.V.
P.O.V. is a Public Broadcasting Service television series which features independent nonfiction films.P.O.V. is the longest-running showcase on television for independent documentary films.... series in 2007.
