Re: 'Restrepo' Filmmaker Tim Hetherington Killed in Libya

Agreed on all counts.

Johne Cook
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On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Mike Findlay <[email protected]>wrote:

> Restrepo is a great documentary.  While I realize that the mere act of
> documenting something has an effect on it, he and Junger did as good a job
> as I think humanely possible to let the camera and its subjects tell the
> story.
>
> And without meaning to sound trite, it appears that he died while honoring
> his calling/vocation.
>
> Mike F.
>
>
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> *From:* Johne Cook <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Wed, April 20, 2011 1:49:48 PM
> *Subject:* [DADL-OT] 'Restrepo' Filmmaker Tim Hetherington Killed in Libya
>
>
> 'Restrepo' Filmmaker Tim Hetherington Killed in Libya
>  By *Brent Lang*
> Created *04/20/2011 - 10:12*
> Published: April 20, 2011 @ 10:12 am
>
> "Restrepo" co-director Tim Hetherington has been killed while covering the
> political uprising in Libya, his publicist confirmed to TheWrap.
>
> He was 40, according to his publicist.
>
> There are conflicting reports about the immediate circumstances surrounding
>  Hetherington's death, but it is known that he was hit by an RPG round early
> Thursday morning.
>
> The Oscar-nominated documentarian's colleague Chris Hondros may also have
> been killed, but some outlets are reporting that he remains alive, albeit gravely
> injured<http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/04/tim-hetherington-41-killed-in-libya.html>
> [1].
>
> Hetherington's friend, photographer Andre Liohn, broke the news via
> Facebook:
>
> "Sad news Tim Hetherington died in Misrata now when covering the front
> line. Chris Hondros is in a serious status. Michel Brown and Guy are wounded
> but fine."
>
> *Also read:* 'Restrepo' Directors: Why It's All War ... No Politics
> Allowed<http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/restrepo-all-war-no-politics-18936>
> [2]
>
> According to the Business Insider<http://www.businessinsider.com/tim-hetherington-oscar-libya-restrepo-2011-4>
> [3], Hetherington was tweeting from Misrata shortly before he was killed,
> and described heavy fighting taking place outside the city.
>
> "In besieged Libyan city of Misrata. Indiscriminate shelling by Qaddafi
> forces. No sign of NATO," Hetherington tweeted.
>
> Hetherington regularly contributed his photo-journalism to "Vanity Fair."
>
> Co-directed by author Sebastian Junger and released in 2010,
> "Restrepo" chronicled the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers stationed
> at a remote Afghanistan outpost.
>
> The film, his first as a director,  emerged from a Vanity Fair assignment.
>
> In an interview with TheWrap<http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/restrepo-all-war-no-politics-18936?page=0,0>
> [4] last year, Hetherington said he did not want the film to have an overt
> political message.
>
> "This is a visceral, experiential war film. And we just think there’s a
> massive need, at this critical juncture, for people to put their politics
> aside in the lobby of the theater, and go into a dark room for 93 minutes to
> experience and share what these guys go through, and in some ways digest it
> and honor it," Hetherington said.
>
> In a rave review in the New York Observer<http://www.observer.com/2010/culture/it-won%E2%80%99t-make-you-feel-any-junger-%E2%80%A6#>
> [5], Sara Vilkomerson wrote: "...a documentary so real and unflinching
> (and at times deeply frightening) that it's hard to watch, but it is one of
> those film experiences that you'll feel glad about getting through."
>
> In addition to an Oscar nomination, "Restrepo" was awarded the Grand Jury
> Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
>
> Born in Liverpool, UK, Hetherington studied literature at Oxford University
> and later returned to college to study photojournalism.
>
> Throughout his career, Hetherington reported on international politics, war
> and global poverty, living in West Africa for eight years.
>
> He turned his experiences in Africa into a 2009 book, "Long Story Bit By
> Bit: Liberia Retold," which drew on photographs and interviews to convey
> Liberia's history.
>
> Likewise, Hetherington turned the experience of being embedded with a
> military unit for "Restrepo" into a book, "Infidel," that was released in
> 2010.
>
> His move from straight photojournalism to a mixture of photos, video and
> other media, Hetherington told TheWrap, came in response to a changing media
> landscape.
>
> "The media is changing now," he said. "The old media idea is very
> segmented, but we're at a point now where people can move into different
> forms.  Sebastian has written a book, I have a book.  We had two Nightline
> pieces, two Vanity Fair articles.  I have a set of images that go around the
> world in an art gallery kind of installation piece. Each of them have
> different audiences, and they kind of each elucidate the subject in a
> slightly different way, and ping off of each other. We’re entering this new
> media sphere where those things work, whereas in the past there wasn’t the
> platform to do this kind of work.
>
> "I think inevitably we’ve reached a point in the media where if you go
> somewhere, it seems natural that you might take an array of different tools.
> My kit bag is a field recorder, *and  *a video recorder, *and*  a still
> camera."
>
> In addition to his work on "Restrepo," Hetherington was a cameraman on
> "Liberia: an Uncivil War" (2004) and "The Devil Came on Horseback" (2007).
>
> In his conversation with TheWrap, he summed up his (and Junger's) approach
> simply: "We have covered many, many stories in our time, doing our work.
> Our job is to report."
>
>
> Johne Cook
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