He wants his films to make people care

Raouf Jacob was 10 years old when he lived through "Blood Diamond." He and his parents fled the brutal African civil war featured in the recent Leonardo DiCaprio movie. The Watertown High School graduate says the Hollywood film only scratches the surface of the horrors that took place in Sierra Leone a decade ago. (Full article: 981 words)

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