Tomo Križnar

Tomo Križnar, is a Slovenian writer, documentary film maker, human rights activist, journalist, and a worldwide traveller.
Tomo Križnar, born in 1954, is a Slovenian writer, documentary film maker, human rights activist, journalist, and a worldwide traveller. He has been lobbying for peace in Sudan with human rights activist, UN humanitarian agencies and other influential institutions since 1998. He advocates the establishment of transnational nature habitats to help indigenous people stay on their own homeland.

Križnar’s documentaries »Dar Fur – War for Water« (2008) and »Eyes and Ears of God – Video Surveillance of Sudan« (2012), have forced international, governmental, and non-governmental organizations to direct their attention to the hidden genocide of indigenous peoples in the Sahel, especially in Sudan. 

Since 2017 Križnar and his wife Bojana Pivk Križnar have been trying to help native people on the top of Nuba Mountains suffering from leprosy with no attention or help from the World Health Organization. They finished the production of their documentary film “Rotting 2022” in September 2022.

Križnar’s other documentary work includes the films “Nuba, the Pure People” (2000) and “Nuba, Voices from the Other Side” (2001) as well as several books.

There is no one remotely like Tomo Križnar. Over decades, with singular courage and conviction he has journeyed through the most remote and perilous parts of Darfur and Southern Sudan documenting atrocities, taking photographs, and compiling information that is as invaluable as his humanitarian endeavours.