The Center for Student Leadership, Ethics & Public Service, along with the Service-Leadership Consultants, will be showing the documentary Invisible Children at 7 p.m. in the Campus Cinema in Witherspoon tonight.

“It’s a story about three young Americans who travel to Africa looking for a story to change the world,” Adam Culley, assistant director of CSLEPS, said. “What they found was this tragedy that children are being used as weapons — they are being abducted and being used as soldiers. [The children] are literally packed in — they are sleeping at these places at night so they don’t get stolen.”

Culley said the film reveals issues that have gone unnoticed for a long time.

“The film exposes the effects of the 20-year-long war in Uganda,” he said. “It causes people to ask ‘Why is this being allowed to happen?’ and ‘Who’s not stepping up to stop it?’.”

Tierza Watts, associate director of CSLEPS, said a successful screening last year prompted them to show the film once again.

“It’s a very powerful film,” she said. “We had a lot of great discussion afterwards with students so we decided to show it again.”

Culley said the film is being shown in hopes of motivating students to help.

“Part of it is to raise awareness and hopefully empower students to take action,” he said. “[It’s] also to highlight the fact of social injustice and inequalities in the world.”

Watts said the film will help students see beyond American society.

“We have a very privileged, safe life and that’s not how it is everywhere else,” she said.

Brigid Belko, a senior in natural resources, said she has seen the film six times since her first viewing a year ago.

“I was impacted very much — I actually cried a little when I saw it first,” Belko said. “You feel so ignorant about the world when you first see it.”

Belko said watching the film was an inspiration for her to make a difference.

“It gripped me and I really wanted to do something about it,” she said.

According to Belko, Invisible Children helps viewers gain knowledge of what is going on outside of the U.S.

“It increases world awareness to know what is going on in other countries,” she said. “We are no longer our own little country. We are all connected.”

Madeline Bersch, a sophomore in communication disorders, also saw Invisible Children for the first time last year.

“I really saw the passion from the filmmakers’ side for the children of Northern Uganda,” she said.

Bersch said she encourages students to watch the movie to remove self-centeredness and bring attention to others.

“It’s a great opportunity to take focus off of ourselves and think about something that really matters,” she said. “It’s a real problem and it’s affecting children’s lives.”

Culley said the film has the potential to change the way students think.

“You will leave the film a different person — I think that’s just how impactful it is,” he said.

Watts expressed similar sentiment and said the images in the film will be remembered.

“You’ll never forget this film,” she said. “You’ll think about it afterwards and want to help. It will make you want to do something.”