He’s not a household name, but the man who invented the term ‘genocide’ and then embarked on a mission to secure legislation against the terror now has a movie to further the story of his life.

Watchers of the Sky, a film about Polish lawyer Richard Lemkin’s plight with the United Nations driven by the Armenian massacres and his own family’s slaughter in World War II, premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, taking home two awards. Now, the film is premiering as the documentary portion of this year’s USC Shoah Foundation Comcast/XFinity OnDemand broadcast. The broadcast, called PastFORWARD, is live through Nov. 10, 2016, and will feature stories of genocide and resistance from all around the world.

“Storytelling, I believe, is one of the most powerful tools we have to create change,” Elizabeth Bohart, a social impact strategist and member of USC Shoah Foundation’s Next Generation Council, said. “Nothing is more powerful than a survivor’s testimony.”

Bohart, executive producer and Director of Strategic Outreach for Watchers of the Sky, implemented much of the film’s educational outreach for middle and high school curriculums, and community engagement programs. Her involvement with the film and the film’s director, Oscar-nominated Edet Belzberg, started with an attachment to the story, based on Pulitzer Prize-winning book A Problem from Hell, and a personal goal - to help create a film that told a powerful story, and to further that story with thoughtful outreach  and promotion.

“Everyone can be a Watcher of the Sky,” Bohart said. “Despite the world’s apathy, the characters in the film demonstrate that individuals can make a difference. Individuals with strong moral compasses can drive change.”

The social impact strategist, whose background in creating innovative strategies for start-up and transitional organizations in places like the former Soviet Union and eastern Africa made her uniquely qualified to work with USC Shoah Foundation on this project, worked to create meaningful audience engagement and outreach programs.

“Much of the outreach activities of the film focused on education and working with high school students,” Bohart said. “So it was a good match with the work of USC Shoah Foundation. I believe the power of testimony - real people, telling real stories - has a profound role to play in educating children.”

USC Shoah Foundation, as a rule, does this. Years of collecting testimony from both survivors and witnesses of genocides spanning from the Holocaust to the Guatemalan Genocide have culminated in almost 54,000 taped testimonies finding their way to the Visual History Archive website. These testimonies are used for education efforts and greater research.

Her devotion to the story and the testimony led her to co-founding the Watchers of the Sky Initiative, a nonprofit dedicated to developing and supporting genocide prevention programs, education and advocacy campaigns.

“Outreach and community engagement morphed into the Watchers of the Sky Initiative,” Bohart said. “Our focus was, and continues to be, to work towards creating an active community of ‘watchers’ - individuals that realize the imperative of ending cycles of violence and work to improve the lives of vulnerable communities.”