TV cameramen honoured

LONDON – Cameramen working in Russia, Nigeria, Gaza and Burma – including one who is in jail - won top honours in this year’s Rory Peck Awards.
A two-man undercover team from Burma named only as “Z” and “T” won the features award for secretly filming the lives of children orphaned by a cyclone in May 2008, in defiance of a government edict not to “dwell on sadness”. They work for the Oslo-based Democratic Voice of Burma and their film was broadcast on Britain’s Channel 4 Dispatches.
Latest reports quoted by the Rory Peck Trust said cameraman “T” had been arrested and was facing a long jail sentence for filming without government permission.
Russian cameraman Kazbek Basayev won the Rory Peck Award for News for his coverage of the South Ossetia conflict while working for Reuters Video News. He shot the first film of burning Georgian villages in territory taken under Russian/Ossetian control.
Dutch freelance film-maker Joost van der Valk won the Sony Professional Impact Award for a film about children in poor areas of Nigeria who are branded as witches and blamed for natural catastrophes. The hour-long piece shot for Red Rebel Films and Channel 4 Dispatches had already won a BAFTA award and an international Emmy for Current Affairs.
The Martin Adler prize was awarded jointly to three Gaza freelancers, Talal Abu Rahma, Raed Athamneh and Ashraf Mashharawi “in recognition of the important role they have played bringing stories out of the region.”
The Rory Peck Trust is named in honour of a British freelance war cameraman who was killed by crossfire in Moscow in 1993 during the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The Trust gives financial support to freelance news-gatherers and their families worldwide.
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