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A number of Witness documentaries and their filmmakers have attracted a great degree of international critical acclaim and attention.
Here are some of the principal awards won by Witness films.
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Two Schools in Nablus
Tom Evans and George Azar's insight for Flashback Television into the risks and difficulties that constitute school life in the West Bank won the prestigious 2009 Royal Television Society educational award for adult training.
It was also awarded the Japan prize in The President of NHK Prize in 2008.
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Return to Nablus
Witness returns to Nablus for the final months of the academic year, to complete the year-in-the-life observation of two schools under Israeli occupation.
Return to Nablus has been nominated for International Emmy Awards in 2009.
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Super 30
Chris Mitchell's moving series of films on the attempts to give the chance of a university education to the brightest minds in India's poorest state, Bihar, was awarded the audience award for best documentary at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles and the River to River Festival in Florence in 2008.
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Inside the Red Mosque
In the days before the storming of the occupied Red Mosque in Islamabad in the summer of 2007 Rageh Omaar and his team were the last TV crew inside the mosque.
This exclusive coverage earned an Emmy nomination in 2008 for Farrah Durrani of Midwinter Productions. |
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Gaza Fixer
George Azar's poignant account of the dangers facing Palestinian journalists in Gaza was nominated for the prestigious Rory Peck Award for Features. |
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Child Miners
Rodrigo Vazquez's (Bethnal Films) heartbreaking tale of two young boys toiling in a Bolivian tin mine has been nominated for several awards.
Child Miners was shortlisted at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2008 and at the Guadalajara Film Festival in 2009. Rodrigo Vazquez won the documentary Grand Prize at the Montreal Human Rights Festival 2009 for Child Miners.
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Photographing the Exodus
Juan Medina has expertly captured the despair of failed asylum seekers from Mali.
Justin Webster's expert profile of the photographer and his work has subsequently gained critical acclaim.
Photographing the Exodus was a winner at the Festival International Grand Reportage in France and the winner of the "Manos Unidades" prize at the XIX Concurso Television in Spain, both in 2007. |
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Deadly Playground
One boy's personal mission to clear the cluster bombs scattered across his native southern Lebanon was expertly captured by Katia Saleh of Batoota Films.
Deadly Playground has been touring since 2007 with the International Human Rights Watch Film Festival. |
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