DANIEL JUNGE was named by “Filmmaker” magazine as one of 25 up-and- coming filmmakers in 2003, Junge had his feature-length directorial debut with Chiefs, which premiered at the Tribeca film festival, where it won the award for best documentary, and subsequently received national airing on PBS. He also won four regional Emmy’s for Common Good – 2005, a Six-part series on social entrepreneurs.
SIATTA SCOTT-JOHNSON was born in Buchanan, Liberia in 1974 and raised in rural Grand Bassa County. She has five years of experience as a reporter and producer at DCTV, one of Liberia’s few broadcast television stations, and is a founding member of Omuahtee Africa Media.
After nearly two decades of civil war, Liberia is a nation ready for change. On January 16 2006, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was inaugurated President. She is the first ever freely elected female head of state in Africa. Winning a hotly contested election with the overwhelming support of women across Liberia, since taking office she has appointed other extraordinary women to leadership positions in all areas of government.
Can the first female Liberian president, backed by other powerful women: the Police Chief, and Ministers of Justice and Finance, bring sustainable democracy and peace to such a devastated country?
The documentary gives the viewer behind- the-scenes access to Sirleaf’s cabinet meetings and provides a unique insight into a newly elected African government.
