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Durham?s Megafaun to perform live score of acclaimed documentary, Without a Fight, at UNC?s Memorial Hall

UNC?s Center for Global Initiatives, Carolina for Kibera will host a one-time only screening of the acclaimed documentary Without a Fight, featuring a live musical accompaniment from the Durham-based band Megafaun and a host of special guests at UNC?s Memorial Hall Thursday November 1 at 7 pm.

Without a Fight follows the triumphs and travails of four African youth as they vie for a championship in Kibera, a Kenyan slum rife with ethnic tensions and violent upheavals. For the youth of Kibera, soccer is a way of life. But until the Champion?s League was formed ten years ago, thanks in part to the UNC-based nonprofit Carolina for Kibera, soccer was also a source of tension and violence. Youth peace activists in Kibera asked themselves a question in the face of tribal tension: what would happen if they formed a league that required kids from different tribes to be on the same team? Without a Fight answers this question and offers a unique look into the problems of poverty and division.

The world premier of Without a Fight was held at 11 mm Film Festival in Berlin in March, and the North American premiere was held at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in April. Since then, the film has been shown at universities across the country. Without a Fight has been nominated and short listed for a special jury award by the Peace & Sports International Forum. In mid November, the film will screen as an official entry at the All Sports LA Film Festival

The screening at Memorial Hall marks a homecoming for director Jason Arthurs, who graduated from Carolina, and producer Beth Kutchma, who works at UNC?s Center for Global Initiatives and is part of the heralded Durham-based band Red Collar. While finishing Without a Fight, they asked Megafaun?s Brad and Phil Cook to write and compose the soundtrack. They did, and at Memorial Hall November 1 the Cook brothers will perform a live rendition of the score they composed.

The festivities begin at 5:30 pm with a food truck rodeo outside Memorial Hall, activities for students and families, a demonstration from rope skippers The Bouncing Bulldogs, and a special appearance by UNC soccer sensation and world-renowned freestylist Indi Cowie, whose talents have been featured on various television programs, a Manchester United football match, and in a New York Times video.

At 7pm, UNC alum and Carolina for Kibera co-founder Rye Barcott will introduce the trailer to his book, It Happened on the Way to War, which inspired Arthurs and Kutchma to make Without a Fight. Acclaimed singer-songwriter JKutchma will perform his song Arms Around the World, which he composed for Barcott?s trailer.

After the screening of Without A Fight, there will be a Q&A session with Barcott, Kutchma, Arthurs, Phil and Brad Cook, and Hillary Omala, the Executive Director of Carolina for Kibera?the organization that sponsors the soccer league featured in the film.

Tickets to the screening are $15 for the public, $10 for UNC faculty and staff, and $5 for students with ID. Children under 12 are free.

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