At the festival, John Bul Dau met a man he described as "nice, very sincere." He did not recognize the man, and asked him what he did. The man turned out to be Executive Producer Brad Pitt.
A memoir by the same name was written by John Bul Dau with help from Michael Sweeney.
John Bul Dau, Panther Bior, and Daniel Pach attended the screening of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival with filmmaker Christopher Quinn.
While in Sudan, Daniel Pach is seen wearing a Seattle Sonics shirt. Fellow Lost Boy, John Bul Dau's girlfriend had flown from Kakuma to Seattle and was living there at the time.
John started the John Dau Foundation which builds clinics in southern Sudan.