APT Scores Representation Rights to Barack Obama Doc

BOSTON, January 31: APT
Worldwide has secured international representation rights for Senator Obama
Goes to Africa, a new documentary
film that follows U.S. Senator and Presidential hopeful Barack Obama as he
travels to the land of his ancestry.

From Bob Hercules, the
director of Forgiving Dr. Mengele,
the documentary film chronicles Obama’s journey from Kenya to South Africa to a
Darfur refugee camp in Chad. The heart of Senator Obama Goes to Africa is Obama's homecoming to Siaya, Kenya—his
father's hometown—where thousands of people turn out to greet him. The
documentary also follows Obama as he takes a trip to Robben Island —the
infamous South African prison where Nelson Mandela was jailed for 21 years.

Throughout it all, Obama
narrates the film, giving his own perspective on the journey and Africa's
significance in the world today. Additional perspectives are included through
interviews with Obama's family members, experts on African affairs, U.S.
political commentators and African citizens.

—By Irene Lew