The Last Witness
Documentary and Testimony Project
The Last Witness x What We’ve Witnessed
This project is a collaboration between The Last Witness and What We’ve Witnessed (North American coalition of organizations focused on justice), bringing together shared efforts to document and preserve.
Much of what has happened in Darfur has been denied, minimized, or forgotten. Documentation is a form of protection. It is a way to hold memory, to resist erasure, and to create something that can be used for justice, education, and future generations.
This project is rooted in the understanding that people should be able to tell their own stories, in their own way, and on their own terms.
Documentary Project
The documentary focuses on the siege and fall of El Fasher, along with the broader realities of war, displacement, and survival across Darfur.
It centers the voices of people who lived through these events, rather than outside analysis or narration. The goal is to tell the story from within, through lived experience, memory, and reflection.
The film will draw from testimonies, conversations, and community knowledge to build a narrative that is grounded, personal, and real.
Testimony Project
The testimony project is focused on collecting and preserving firsthand accounts from survivors, witnesses, and community members. We are creating an online platform where people can share what they saw, what they experienced, and what they carry, in their own words and on their own terms.
This includes:
Recorded interviews
Written testimonies
Audio submissions
These testimonies will be archived and may contribute to the documentary, as well as future research, advocacy, and community memory work.