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Pulitzer Center Grantee Wins Rory Peck Award. A Pulitzer Center-supported film has received a Rory Peck Award.
Grantee Brent E. Huffman won the New Features Award for his reporting on the Chinese government’s brutal crackdown on Uyghur Muslims in a film for Vice News, Uyghurs Who Fled China Now Face Repression in Pakistan. Huffman’s film followed Mohammed Umer, an Uyghur activist who operates an underground railroad in Pakistan that smuggles persecuted Muslims into other countries. His work is becoming more difficult as China invests billions of dollars into the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a series of infrastructure projects that connect the two countries. For all the promises of CPEC to transform Pakistan’s economy, some groups see these developments as a threat and have mounted a violent campaign of resistance.
Producer-Director Brent E. Huffman traveled to Pakistan five times over a four-year period to gain the trust of a vulnerable community of Uyghurs hidi
First up, the rory peck award for news, for films that capture the immediacy of a story. chanting say his name! dante wright! what s his name? dante wright! shortly before the trial of derek chauvin, the police officer accused of killing the unarmed black man george floyd, katie g nelson and ed ou were assigned by the new york times to cover protests in minnesota. how is it unlawful? it s not unlawful! you re unlawful! the demonstrators were calling for police accountability for dante wright, another unarmed black man who was shot and killed by a brooklyn center police officer during a routine traffic stop. people were really angry that this kept happening across our state and across our
These are some of the most powerful images of the year, all shot by freelance video journalists. sounds like you worked out that you had to do this to keep going. yeah. each year, we step behind the camera to speak to the men and women who capture and bring us some of the most important news stories of our times, often under extremely difficult circumstances and great personal strain. these freelance video journalists are honoured by the rory peck awards, named after a british freelancer who was killed in moscow covering the october coup in 1993. his memory lives on through the rory peck trust, which works with support freelance journalists and their families worldwide.
Was a powerful and sober approach to what was happening in tigray. it was bold and brave with understated interviews, which put this very hard to reach conflict in the spotlight. next, the rory peck awards for news features, for films that look beyond the immediacy of the news story. mount everest is the ultimate mountaineering challenge for climbers from around the globe. but for those helping them scale the world s highest peak, it can be deadly work. sherpa men die in disproportionate numbers, leaving behind widows who struggle to survive. this intimate film by rojita adhikari and sreya banerjee