Eight films, including one about Asia, “Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields” have been selected to take part in the Good Pitch Europe 2012, a partnership between the Channel 4 Britdoc Foundation and the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program. The one-day pitching event, held at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London on June 25, brokers relationships between filmmakers and NGOs, [...]
On May 8, three docs about Asia received 4 of the One World Media awards, which recognize the best British media coverage of the wider world. . Channel 4′s “Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields” picked up 2 of the One World Media awards. The ITN-produced documentary, an investigation into alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka, received both the the television and documentary awards. According to the two juries ”Sri Lanka’s Killing [...]
UK-based distributor DRG has secured sales around the world for a controversial Channel 4 documentary on Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka’s “Killing Fields” was produced by ITN Productions and aired by C4 in June last year. The film used mobile phone footage and eye witness accounts of war crimes allegedly committed at the end of the country’s civil war between the government and Tamil Tigers [...]
UK factual specialist ITN Productions is putting together a documentary based on amateur camera footage of the Japanese tsunami to air in the UK. By Clive Whittingham C21 Media 2011, 1 Sep 2011 Japan’s Tsunami: Caught on Camera (1×60′) is a one-off doc from ITN that captures the devastating impact of the earthquake and tsunami that struck the country in [...]
