“Based on the true story of screenwriter Oscar Torres's embattled childhood, Luis Mandoki's Innocent Voices is the poignant tale of Chava (Carlos Padilla), an eleven-year-old boy who suddenly becomes the ‘man of the house’ after his father abandons the family in the middle of a civil war.” (Source: Source:  http://www.innocentvoicesmovie.com/)

This film complements this year’s common reading, A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah.

Free and Open to the Public. For more information: http://www.innocentvoicesmovie.com/

Contact: Dr. Rita Smith Wade-El

Sponsors: Frederick Douglass Black Culture Celebration, University Theme, Humanities Film Festival and Common Reading.