"War/Dance is an honorable, sometimes inspiring exploration of the primal healing power of music and dance in an African tribal culture."—Stephen Holden, New York Times

Entertaining Ideas is proud to have been a financial backer as well as Executive Producer on this highly acclaimed project.

War/Dance, distributed by Think Film and released in November 2007, is set in northern Uganda, a country ravaged by more than two decades of civil war. The film tells the story of Dominic, Rose, and Nancy, three children whose families have been torn apart, their homes destroyed, and who currently reside in a displaced persons camp in Patongo. When they are invited to compete in an annual music and dance festival, their historic journey to their nation’s capital is also an opportunity to regain a part of their childhood and to taste victory for the first time in their lives.

War/Dance premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Best Director Award. Since then, it has garnered an impressive list of over 40 festival awards, including the Best Director Award at the Philadelphia FirstGlance Film Fest, Audience Awards at Hot Docs and Full Frame, and was included at the Moma/Lincoln Center New Directors/New Films festival in 2007. Highly acclaimed, it went on to receive an Academy Award nomination in 2008 as well as two Emmy Awards in 2010.