Re: 'Restrepo' Filmmaker Tim Hetherington Killed in Libya

I followed your meaning. (I'm trying really, really hard to keep my inner
grammar cop on a short leash.) ; )

Johne Cook
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On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Mike Findlay <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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]>
> *To:* DADL (off topic) <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Wed, April 20, 2011 2:27:18 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [DADL-OT] '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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