A Violent Response is a documenatry film that looks at the Zimbabwean post-election Government/ZANU PF sponsored violence against opposition supporters. The film was shot in Zimbabwe and is based on award winning journalist Hopewell Chin’ono’s one year experience of having a front row seat and capturing his country’s descent into a violent village with no escape route. The violence claimed lives of over 400 Zimbabweans in a three month period of an orgy of mindless brutality on innocent citizens. A Violent Response is out in December.
About the Filmmaker
Hopewell Chin’ono is a Zimbabwean Broadcast Journalist and Filmmaker. Hopewell is currently a Nieman Fellow at The Harvard University Nieman Foundation for Journalism.
Just got the info via facebook that the film will be shown at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University (1 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA, United States) on Wednesday the 16th of December.
ReplyDeleteIf you have time you are invited to come and watch the 1st screening at 15:00 Hrs or the 2nd screening at 18:30.
It is also going out on Kenya's K24 next week and International TV on dates TBA.
I have just heard from Hopewell Chin’ono that "A Violent Response" has been accepted for the 2010 Emmys International Documentary Award. Congrats!
ReplyDeleteA Violent Response was nominated last night for the prestigious Banff World Television Awards in Canada.http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/issues/story.aspx?aid=1000366915 Congrats!
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