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With the intent to film a documentary about the War in Darfur, college students Jason Russell, Bobby Bailey, and Laren Poole traveled to Africa in 2003. [7] Russell had recently graduated from film school at the University of Southern California, and after hearing from locals that gunmen had shot at the truck in front of him while driving in northern Uganda, he learned about Joseph Kony and ...
In 2005, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, Invisible Children, Inc., was created giving individuals a way to respond to the situation in Uganda. [5] An employee of the organization, Nate Henn, was killed in the July 2010 Kampala attacks .
Jason Russell (born October 12, 1978) [1] is an American film and theater director, choreographer, and activist who co-founded Invisible Children, Inc. [2] He is the director of Kony 2012, a short documentary film that went viral in the beginning of March 2012.
As of June 2024, the film had received over 103 million views and 1.3 million likes on the video-sharing website YouTube, [10] and over 18.7 million views and over 21.8 thousand likes on Vimeo, [11] with other views on a central Kony 2012 website operated by Invisible Children. At the time, the video was the most liked on the whole of YouTube ...
Displace Me was a nationwide event hosted by the nonprofit Invisible Children Inc. on April 28, 2007. [1] In 15 cities across the United States , 68,000 individuals came together to raise awareness about the situation of the displacement camps in northern Uganda .
Schools for Schools was created by Invisible Children Inc. to help the children of northern Uganda receive a quality education. The program attempts to encourage academic excellence and leadership in students and on a much larger scale within the schools. [3]
Global Night Commute was a worldwide event organized by the makers of the film Invisible Children through the organization Invisible Children, Inc. It took place on April 29, 2006. Youths from around the world walked to city centers and spent the night in parks to show support for Ugandan children who walk every night into city centers ...
Danny Glover and Don Cheadle have both been vocal advocates on behalf of the children of Northern Uganda. On 5 March 2012, the Invisible Children organization posted the Kony 2012 video on YouTube which was widely seen. [97] [98] [99] As of 22 March, 2023, the film had over 103 million views on video-sharing website YouTube. [100]