With fighting raging on in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and seemingly no end in sight for the 250,000 Congolese people forced from their homes because of the violence, actor-director Ben Affleck, Sir Mick Jagger and Paolo Nutini have released a short film to help raise US $23 million for the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) during 2009 to help pay for clean water and emergency humanitarian assistance kits in the region.
The film – “Gimme Shelter” – was directed by Affleck and filmed by John Toll, both Academy Award winners. The footage in November 2008 in the strife-torn North Kivu region of the DRC, where thousands have fled their homes since fighting resumed in August. The film is set to the Rolling Stones’ song Gimme Shelter, which Jagger and the group donated to the campaign and Ben Affleck and Mick Jagger approached Paolo to do a version of the song for an alternative version of the film.
GIMME SHELTER
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