Dr. Jerry Ehrlich first traveled to Sudan in 1991 as a volunteer with the aid organization Doctors Without Borders. Since then he has traveled to Darfur, Haiti, and Sri Lanka. Having viewed drawings by children during the Holocuast in the Terezin ghetto in what is now the Czech Republic, Ehrlich decided to provide his young patients with crayons and paper so they could document their own experience. He began to read the lives of children displaced by war through the pictures that they drew. When director Bruce David Janu saw some of the drawings on line he decided to meet Dr. Ehrlich. I was just taken by him, Janu says. He is a film unto himself. Crayons and Paper, a documentary in progress, tells the story of children devastated by war. The film features original music by Tom Flannery and Lorne Clarke. You can contribute to this film, and find free lesson plans for Janu's award-winning film Facing Sudan at Bell Book & Camera Productions.
