The Devil Came on Horseback
2006, 85 minutes
Directed by Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern
While serving six months as an unarmed military observer with the African Union in Darfur, Sudan, former U.S. Marine Captain Brian Steidle had access no journalist was afforded. Unable to intervene, he took thousands of uncompromising photographs that documented the genocide, then resigned his post and dedicated himself to exposing the magnitude of these atrocities. The Devil Came on Horseback had its New York premiere at the sixth annual Tribeca Film Festival, April 25–May 6, 2007.
OPENS WEDNESDAY JULY 25, 2007 in New York at the IFC Center.
Director’s Bio
Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern co-directed and co-produced The Trials of Darryl Hunt, which debuted at Sundance in 2006 and was nominated for Best Documentary at the 2007 Independent Spirit Awards. The film, which is centered around a wrongful conviction in the American South, will be released theatrically in June 2007. Sundberg has also produced the feature film Tully and the Academy Award-winning One Survivor Remembers for HBO. Stern has directed the documentaries In My Corner and Neglect Not The Children (hosted by Morgan Freeman) for PBS. They are currently developing The Trials of Darryl Hunt as a feature film and will soon begin work on their next documentary.
Click here to read an interview with Ricki Stern, Co-Director of The Devil Came on Horseback
