The Thing That Happened (2011)

The Thing That Happened is a twentytwominute documentary short that profiles the Hope North Secondary and Vocational school on northern Uganda Hope North struggles on a shoestring budget to provide a home and an education for children displaced by the civil war between the Lords Resistance Army LRA and the Uganda Peoples Defense Forces UDPF The students are a mix of former child soldiers orphans and the abjectly poor Mitigating the horrific effects of the war and focusing them on their future is a monumental task