Author: jonw

02/01/2011 / / Documentary

From the award-winning director of The War on Democracy comes John Pilger’s latest work, The War You Don’t See. This hard-hitting exposé and scrutinizes the effects of the media during wartime, asking what is the role of the media in rapacious wars.

When symbols are separated from facts and the facts don’t matter, could the media be accused of conspiring to play down the carnage and of using ’embedded journalism’ to amplify the lies? This documentary unveils the war you don’t see and allows you to make up your own mind.

26/11/2010 / / Documentary

My Asian Heart follows award winning photojournalist Philip Blenkinsop on assignment to China, setting up his next exhibition. Capturing Nepal during the pro democracy uprisings. And reflecting on the plight of the Hmong “survivors” who continue to haunt him. In Philip’s world there’s constant tension between his artistic commitments and the drive to report on world conflicts.

26/10/2010 / / Documentary

The Aokigahara Forest is the most popular site for suicides in Japan. After the novel Kuroi Jukai was published, in which a young lover commits suicide in the forest, people started taking their own lives there at a rate of 50 to 100 deaths a year. The site holds so many bodies that the Yakuza pays homeless people to sneak into the forest and rob the corpses. The authorities sweep for bodies only on an annual basis, as the forest sits at the base of Mt. Fuji and is too dense to patrol more frequently.