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More Awards and Montreal Film Fest Debut for Camp Unity
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Camp Unity pulls in big crowds, good reviews and more awards at Philadelphia and Montreal Film Festivals
Camp Unity, the documentary by Ryan While about American Voice's YES Academy program in Iraq, has garnered the Silver award for best documentary at the Philadelphia International Film festival and won excellent reviews at the Montreal International Film Festival. Reviewer Sandy Mandelberger wrote: ""Ryan White, a California-based freelance director with some short documentaries to his credit, makes an impressive feature debut here in the story of a group of American music, theater and dance artists who offer a unique immersion program in arts development for Iraqi young people. American Voices is a not-for-profit organization that organizes a group of music and dance instructors to come to the Kurdistan province in northern Iraq to meet with and train young Iraqi hopefuls. The film captures this diverse group of young Iraqi performing arts students whose cultural and religious mix (Kurdish, Arab, Moslem, Christian) reflects the diversity of the country itself. The first section of the film portrays the hopes and dreams of these young people, all scarred by their war experiences, to be the ones chosen to participate in an intensive dance and music workshop."
