War Child Named Cadillac Award Winner

"The entire War Child team is immensely grateful to the Tribeca Film Festival for giving us this extraordinary opportunity to show our film to the best audience in the world, New Yorkers," said first-time director C. Karim Chrobog, whose riveting documentary received the Cadillac Award for audience choice on a WNBC television broadcast last night. "We have been on a long and arduous journey in making this film, and moments like this make it all worthwhile. We hope receiving the Cadillac Award will spur more people to see the movie and listen to Emmanuel Jal's extraordinary music and journey and get involved in our dream of building a school in Emmanuel's home in South Sudan."

Chrobog will receive a cash prize of $25,000, the art award Peripheral Drift Illusion by Ryan McGinness, and a one-of-a-kind trophy to commemorate his achievement.

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