GRITtv with Laura Flanders
GRITtv: Movies That Matter: Documenting Human Rights
Jun 9, 2009 Episode Archive
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Laura Flanders talks to creative thinkers and change-makers from the worlds of politics, arts and the new economy. The smartest conversations, with the smartest thinkers and doers of our time, distributed in multiple formats on a variety of platforms. Keep abreast of fresh content by following GRITtv, the site Flanders founded, on Twitter @GRITtv.
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About this episode
Jun 9, 2009
23:30
News & Politics
Documenting human rights stories is no laughing matter as the recent conviction of American reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee to twelve years of 'ha...
Documenting human rights stories is no laughing matter as the recent conviction of American reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee to twelve years of 'hard labor' in North Korea has reminded us. Pamela Yates, Director of The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court and Jawad Metni, Director of Remnants of a War which chronicles the de-mining of one million cluster bombs dropped on Lebanon by Israel during the 2006 war are joined by Andrea Holley of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival to discuss the perils of filmmaking --and why they still do it.
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