Tribeca Film Festival 2010 Preview: Deborah Scranton’s Earth Made Of Glass

Tonight, we have chosen to preview a film, which seeks to expose a genocide, hopefully answering many questions. Deborah Scranton’s Earth Made of Glass is a documentary, focusing on the genocide in Rwanda, occuring in 1994, whose ramifications are still felt to this day.

From the trailer, the film looks to be feature a very serious, grim topic, but is something that we should all expose ourselves to, as this modern horror is an event that few talk about today.

Earth Made of Glass will screen on April 26th, 27th, 30th, and May 1st. For a complete list of screening times and locations, visit the official Tribeca Page. You can also visit the films website, become a fan on Facebook, or follow the film’s events on Twitter.

From the director of The War Tapes comes a powerful new film that looks at the horrific 1994 genocide in Rwanda from both personal and political perspectives. On August 6, 2008, against the backdrop of the world’s deadliest war in neighboring Eastern Congo, Rwandan President Paul Kagame released a report detailing the French government’s hidden role in planning the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Three months later, his closest aide, Rose Kabuye, was arrested by France on charges of terrorism.

Meanwhile, Jean Pierre Sagahutu, a genocide survivor haunted by his father’s unsolved murder, scours the Rwandan countryside on a 15-year-search for clues and ultimately finds himself confronted with his darkest desire: being face-to-face with his father’s killer. As President Kagame fights to free Rose from France and expose the truth about what really happened in Rwanda 15 years ago, Jean Pierre journeys to the scene of the crime, and the doorstep of a killer, to uncover the chilling facts behind his father’s death. As each relentlessly pursues the truth’”with the fate of a family and a country hanging in the balance’”they find themselves faced with a choice: enact vengeance or turn the other cheek’¦. Deborah Scranton crafts this dark material into an inspiring and uplifting examination of the search for truth beyond justice and the long road to redemption in Rwanda.

–Jim Browne