Director
Charles Lyons
PRODUCERS
Susan Lee MacDonald
and Charles Lyons
SENIOR EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Chaim Litewski
EDITOR
Tamiris Lourenco
COMPOSERS
Flavia Tygel, Marion Lemonnier, and Woody Pak
Our film benefits from hours of UN footage, much of it never publicly seen.
As well as footage shot by news organizations during a tumultuous decade while Ban led the UN.
Chief among our goals is to use this trove, and fresh interviews, to reveal a man many people don’t know at all, or think they know.
While our approach is not combative, we do not shy from controversy, asking tough questions about what the UN can and should do to handle increasingly difficult global crises, including new wars, while giving Ban the opportunity to assess his accomplishments and failures during his ten years at the UN.
Interviews Include
Ban Ki-moon, 8th Secretary-General of the UN Yoo Soon-Taek, his wife
Juan Manual Santos, former President of Colombia
Mark Malloch Brown, President, Open Society Foundations
Beatrice Lindstrom, Senior Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law School
Richard Haass, President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations
Rajon Menon, Spitzer Professor of International Relations, Emeritus, City College of New York
Jean Krasno, Lecturer, Dept. of Political Science, CCNY/ Columbia University
Lina Khatib, Director, SOAS Middle East Institute
Richard Gowan, UN Director, International Crisis Group
This documentary is intimate, evocative, empathetic, and emotional–– about a man who not only achieved change in the world, but also followed his passions, charting a bold, original path in the face of criticism.
But we see this film as much broader than the transformational arc of a single man’s life: Ban was born one year earlier than the UN; his life is a time capsule of a period in history marked by a brutal clash between multinational and unilateralist approaches to governing. The film also probes the value of an institution that grew out of the ashes of World War II, when there was one world order, to what it is today, when that world order has changed.
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Ban Ki-moon
“Not a single country or person, however powerful, resourceful one may be, one cannot do it alone. We must join all our hands on the deck together.
Otherwise, we will be neglecting our duty, living in this century, to make sure that our succeeding generations will be able to live in peace and harmony.”
