Re: 'Restrepo' Filmmaker Tim Hetherington Killed in Libya

Even my misspelling of "humanly"?  ; - )  I suppose humanely works but that 
wasn't what I meant.

Mike F.  





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From: Johne Cook <[email protected]>
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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.    

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>And without meaning to sound trite, it appears that he died while honoring his 
>calling/vocation.  
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From: Johne Cook <[email protected]>
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>Subject: [DADL-OT] 'Restrepo' Filmmaker Tim Hetherington Killed in Libya
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>'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 [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 [2]
>According to the Business Insider [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 [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 [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."
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>Johne Cook
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