Screening of the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize Winning Film Long Night's Journey Into Day

January 30, 2001

 

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Long Night's Journey Into Day: South Africa's Search for Truth and Reconciliation

Long Night's Journey Into Day reveals a South Africa trying to forge a lasting peace after 40 years of government by the most notorious system of racial segregation since Nazi Germany. The documentary studies South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), set up by the post-apartheid, democratic government to consider amnesty for perpetrators of crimes committed under apartheid's reign.

Long Night's Journey into Day received the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival.