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| The Boys of Baraka | |
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| Directed by | Heidi Ewing Rachel Grady |
| Produced by | Heidi Ewing Rachel Grady |
| Starring | Devon Brown Richard Keyser |
| Cinematography | Marco Franzoni Tony Hardmon |
| Edited by | Enat Sidi |
| Music by | J.J. McGeehan |
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| Distributed by | THINKFilm |
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Running time | 84 min. |
| Language | English |
The Boys of Baraka is a 2005 documentary film produced and directed by filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady. The documentary follows twenty boys from Baltimore, Maryland who spend their seventh and eighth-grade years at a rural boarding school in northern Kenya.
It premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in 2005, where it won the Special Jury Award for Documentary Feature. It was released theatrically in 2006 by ThinkFilm.[1] The film also won a Gold Hugo at the 2005 Chicago Film Festival for Best Documentary and an NAACP Image Award[2] for Outstanding Independent or Foreign Film. The film was shortlisted for the 2006 Academy Awards and nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Informational Programming.
- ^ Brooks, Brian (3 November 2005). "THINKFilm Takes "The Boys of Baraka" to Theaters". IndieWire. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
- ^ "Home". NAACP Image Awards. Retrieved 27 January 2023.