A Creighton documentary is starting to get some attention.

“Mato Oput,” the backpack journalism film, has been chosen as an Official Selection of the 2011 Peace on Earth Film Festival. It is one of 38 entries selected from a field of 152 submissions.

The Peace on Earth Festival is hosted by the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events and will take place in the Chicago Cultural Center’s Claudia Cassidy Theatre from Feb. 23 – 26.

The festival circuit is very competitive for documentaries.

“It’s very nice to see the documentary get some recognition for all the hard work that everyone who went on the trip put in for the project,” Journalism professor Carol Zuegner said.

“Mato Oput” recently won best of show at the Elkhorn Valley Film festival.

“Just being in the selection is kind of winning enough,” Zuegner said. “Now we have posters and a trailer on Vimeo.”

The film astonishes many people at the film festival because it was shot and edited in five weeks.

Mato Oput is a documentary about the people of Uganda recovering from the civil war that lasted over 20 years. The backpack journalism group talked to church leaders and people who were most affected.

Many people that were interviewed were displaced from their homes, had children who were forced to become child soldiers and even a bishop forced into exile. It was filmed on the Backpack Journalism trip during the summer of 2011.