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Rory Peck Awards 2010: Save the Date!
8 Sep 2010
This year's Rory Peck Awards ceremony takes place on Wednesday 17th November at London's BFI Southbank. Tickets are on sale now.
Afghanistan documentary Restrepo opens in US movie theatres
25 Jun 2010
Tim Hetherington won the 2008 Rory Peck Award for Features for his eyewitness account of the daily struggles faced by a platoon of US soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal valley. Restrepo is the feature length version of the story which Tim...
Rory Peck Award Winner Given Thirteen Year Prison Sentence
1 Feb 2010
Freelance video journalist Ngwe Soe Lin was last week sentenced to 13 years in prison by the Burmese authorities. He was charged with filming without permission under the Electronics and Video Act, a new law introduced just last year. 28 year...
Freelance journalist Mushfig Huseynov released from prison
13 Jan 2010
The Trust is delighted to learn that the 38 year old has been released from prison after two and a half years behind bars. Mushfig - a high profile investigative journalist in Azerbaijan - was pardoned by presidential decree on December...
Committee to Protect Journalists reveals dramatic increase in imprisoned freelancers
9 Dec 2009
Freelancers now make up nearly 45 percent of all journalists jailed worldwide - a dramatic recent increase that reflects the evolution of the global news business, the Committee to Protect Journalists announced yesterday.
Rory Peck Award Winner imprisoned in Burma
18 Nov 2009
Burmese cameramen, 'T' who won the Rory Peck Award for Features with DVB colleague, 'Z' faces a long prison sentence in Burma. After four months in jail, 'T" was charged with Filming Without Governmet Permission - brought in under the recently-...
Oscar Nomination for Rory Peck Finalists
10 Feb 2010
Congratulations to Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neil who have received an Oscar nomination for "China’s Unnatural Disaster; The Tears of Sechuan Province". It is one of five films competing in the Documentary Short category on 7...
