The Boys of Baraka

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The Boys of Baraka
Directed by Heidi Ewing
Rachel Grady
Produced by Heidi Ewing
Rachel Grady
Starring Devon Brown
Richard Keyser
Music by J.J. McGeehan
Cinematography Marco Franzoni
Tony Hardmon
Editing by Enat Sidi
Distributed by ITVS
Release date(s) 30 November 2005
Running time 84 min.
Language English
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The Boys of Baraka is a 2005 documentary film produced and directed by filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (both of whom also made Jesus Camp in 2006). Twenty at-risk boys from Baltimore attend the seventh and eighth grades at a boarding school in Kenya. The documentary follows them in Kenya and in Baltimore, before and after attending the Baraka School in Kenya.

It won the Audience Award Best Feature Film at the 2005 Silverdocs Festival at the AFI Silver Theater in Silver Spring, Maryland. Other showings have included the Green Mountain Film Festival in Vermont.

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