Casino67 Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Movieline:This just in, and just devastating; Tim Hetherington, the acclaimed war photographer who this year shared an Oscar nomination with Sebastian Junger for their documentary Restrepo, has been reported killed with a colleague while covering the ongoing conflict in Libya.Word broke this morning via André Liohn, a fellow combat photographer who posted the news to his Facebook page: “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.” Liohn noted Hondros’s own death minutes later. Asked by a commenter if this was confirmed, Liohn immediately replied, “Yes.”Hetherington tweeted less than 36 hours ago about the status of the region he was covering: “In besieged Libyan city of Misrata. Indiscriminate shelling by Qaddafi forces. No sign of NATO.”Hetherington’s directing debut Restrepo followed a troop of American soldiers in one of the most violent and embattled parts of Afghanistan. He and co-director Sebastian Junger won the documentary Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival before going on to an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature.“We’re storytellers, and we’re also pretty good at telling stories at the extreme edges,” Hetherington told Movieline last year at Sundance. “That’s what I do. I would love to tell a story about the rain forest in the Amazon, but the reality is that for the last ten years, that’s not what I’ve been doing. […] And if you’ve invested 10 years of life into it or more, then you want to kind of make something, or reach a point where you’ve distilled something. And I really feel that Restrepo is a distillation of what I’ve learned about war, and what I’ve seen of war.”Developing… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SrWoodchuck Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 God speed your soul to the same Valhalla that the warriors you covered are bound. Restrepo was a very moving "combat" film/documentary, that went into the hearts & minds of our combat troops. If a man's work defines him.....this man should stand with the best. How hard is it to go to war with a camera & not a gun? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepper Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Journalists under attack in Libya CPJ has documented more than 80 attacks on the press since political unrest erupted in Libya last month. They include three fatalities, at least four serious injuries, 49 detentions, 11 assaults, two attacks on news facilities, the jamming of Al-Jazeera and Al-Hurra transmissions, at least four instances of obstruction, the expulsion of two international journalists, and the interruption of Internet service. At least six local journalists are missing amid speculation they are in the custody of security 10,000 death toll after months of Libyan unrest By Marc Burleigh Misrata, Libya WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2011 This sure is not GW Bush's fault. Let's see how Obama spins this anyone's fault but his own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Journalists under attack in Libya CPJ has documented more than 80 attacks on the press since political unrest erupted in Libya last month. They include three fatalities, at least four serious injuries, 49 detentions, 11 assaults, two attacks on news facilities, the jamming of Al-Jazeera and Al-Hurra transmissions, at least four instances of obstruction, the expulsion of two international journalists, and the interruption of Internet service. At least six local journalists are missing amid speculation they are in the custody of security 10,000 death toll after months of Libyan unrest By Marc Burleigh Misrata, Libya WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2011 This sure is not GW Bush's fault. Let's see how Obama spins this anyone's fault but his own. Yes it is GW's fault. It's always his fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casino67 Posted April 20, 2011 Author Share Posted April 20, 2011 Who thinks the 0 will say anything about this? He is too busy campaigning for bucks to notice anything. He hasn't mentioned or visited the areas destroyed by tornadoes over the weekend either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanguine Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 Who thinks the 0 will say anything about this? He is too busy campaigning for bucks to notice anything. He hasn't mentioned or visited the areas destroyed by tornadoes over the weekend either. Nor the fires in Texas. Any other president, dimocrat or Republican would have been ripped for this kind of casual disregard, disrespect for and disinterest in his constituents. Bill Clinton or George Bush wouldn't have gotten away with this level of disengagement, but no one even raises the question to this one 0. It's pretty amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 God speed your soul to the same Valhalla that the warriors you covered are bound. Restrepo was a very moving "combat" film/documentary, that went into the hearts & minds of our combat troops. If a man's work defines him.....this man should stand with the best. How hard is it to go to war with a camera & not a gun? Very Well Said!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCTexan Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 This is really sad... It took a tremendous amount of courage to film Restrepo. I'm sure that he was in the same mode in Libya. Restrepo is a must see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casino67 Posted April 21, 2011 Author Share Posted April 21, 2011 FYI @PublicRelations National Geographic is re-airing #Restrepo" Monday April 25 at 9pm EST Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanguine Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 FYI @PublicRelations National Geographic is re-airing #Restrepo" Monday April 25 at 9pm EST Thanks. I haven't seen it yet, so I will try to catch it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SrWoodchuck Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 Thanks, Casino! Another link to Tim Hetherington's life work: The Brigade.com-A Tim Hetherington Retrospective Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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