Playing football at Brown taught filmmaker how to lead For Ken Carlson, the journey to an award-winning career making films began on the gridiron playing defense in high school. Carlson grew up a small town in north central Ohio. The son of a minister father and a... Read more
The conflict and atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur region seized the world’s attention about 10 years ago, but since then other wars have taken its place. Nonetheless, the bloodshed continues as the Sudanese Omar al-Bashir has attacked the people of the disputed Nuba... Read more
Filmmaker Ken Carlson and human rights activist Bonnie Abaunza joined “Whats Up with Deborah Kobylt” today, Thursday February 9, 2017 to talk about The Heart of Nuba and the extraordinary Dr. Tom Catena, the only doctor in the entire Nuba... Read more
At six o’clock each morning an American doctor makes his way through the dark to a simple chapel where he spends half an hour, rosary in hand, enlisting God’s support for the day ahead. He is Dr Tom Catena, and he is the only surgeon in the only... Read more
Brown Alumni Magazine, of Brown University, profiles Dr. Tom, Producer/Director Carlson, and <em>The Heart of Nuba</em>: “…Carlson talked about seeing Dr. Tom perform seventeen surgeries in one day, including ‘amputations, lacerations,... Read more
“Catena started Mother of Mercy with a small group of foreigners. He took on Nuban employees gradually. “There was nobody who could do anything,” he said. The war had closed most schools, and many of the local hires had no formal education. Others had grown up... Read more