John Pilger awarded
Australian journalist and filmmaker John Pilger has been presented with an international award for his body of work.
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Australian journalist and filmmaker John Pilger has been presented with an international award for his body of work.
Pilger was awarded the Trustees Award at the The Grierson Trust British Documentary Awards in London for his achievements over the last 50 years.
Pilger has made a host of hard-hitting documentaries including Cambodia Year Zero which exposed the horrors of the Pol Pot regime and The Quiet Mutiny which exposed rebellion within the US army during the Vietnam war.
Trust chairman Dawn Airey credited him as “one of the world’s great documentary producers”.
“His work has uncovered atrocity, probed the underbelly of society, sparked controversy and challenged the heart of democracy,” she added.
Pilger used the platform to issue a warning about the future of the genre.
“Documentaries that break the code are an endangered species,” he said, adding that new filmmakers were being encouraged to produce “a form of reality TV.”
“We need independent spirits as never before.”
His documentary The War You Don’t See aired on SBS earlier this year.
Source: Broadcastnow
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The War You Don’t See, was excellent.
He does good stuff, which unfortunately most people won’t watch because it has substance.
This guy is an inspiration to all the up and comming journos or atleast he should be. He is fair and balanced and actually gives the people the oppportunity to know what is going on in the world and then he lets people make up their own mind. John shows the facts which other media and journos will not.
Congratulations John!
I watched the ‘War on Democracy’ just the other week, by golly what a poke in the eye it was.
Keep up the good work.