Description: Charles Ress Lyons, multimedia producer. Professional website.
“The Quiet Diplomat: Ban Ki-moon and the Future of the UN” is a feature documentary film-in-the-making about former Secretary General Ban and the future of the United Nations.
The arc of SG Ban’s life has been remarkable. Born just one year before the United Nations itself, Ban was six years old when he and his family were displaced due to the Korean War. The UN literally saved his life. Being part of such an organization became a life calling.
But this documentary film is larger than the transformational arc of a single man’s life: his life offers a time capsule of a period in history marked by a brutal clash between multi-national and unilateralist approaches to governing —and an opportunity to question the value of the United Nations today.