War, media and diplomatic truth-telling
Hosted by: AIIA NSW
The event will start on: Tuesday, 23 August 2011 6:00 PM
And will end on: Tuesday, 23 August 2011 7:30 PM
At The Glover Cottages, Sydney
Posted by: nsw
REGISTRATION CLOSED 19/08/11
With acclaimed journalist and documentary film maker John Pilger
John will introduce and discuss his latest documentary 'The War You Don't See' which is a powerful and timely investigation into the media's role in war, tracing the history of 'embedded' and independent reporting from the carnage of World War One to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war in Afghanistan and disaster in Iraq. As weapons and propaganda become even more sophisticated, the nature of war is developing into an 'electronic battlefield' in which journalists play a key role, and civilians are the victims.
The documentary includes interviews with WikiLeaks founder and editor-in-chief Julian Assange and Carne Ross the former British diplomat who resigned in 2004 after giving then-secret evidence to a British inquiry into the war. Carne then founded the world's first non-profit diplomatic advisory group, Independent Diplomat, which advises marginalized countries and groups around the world.
The format for the evening will include a 30 minute screening of the documentary followed by Q & A discussion. View the trailer of ‘The War You Don’t See’
John Pilger was born and grew up in Bondi, Sydney, Australia. Pilger moved to London, joined Reuters, then the Daily Mirror, Britain's biggest selling newspaper. He became chief foreign correspondent and reported from all over the world, covering numerous wars, notably Vietnam. Still in his twenties, he became the youngest journalist to receive Britain's highest award for journalism, Journalist of the Year and was the first to win it twice.
His numerous documentaries on Australia, notably The Secret Country (1983), the bicentary trilogy The Last Dream (1988) and Welcome to Australia (1999) all celebrated and revealed much of his own country's 'forgotten past', especially its indigenous past and present.
He has won an Emmy and a BAFTA for his documentaries, which have also won numerous US and European awards, such as the Royal Television Society's Best Documentary.
His articles appear worldwide in newspapers such as the Guardian, the Independent, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Mail & Guardian (South Africa), Aftonbladet (Sweden), Il Manifesto (Italy). He writes a regular column for the New Statesman, London. In 2001, he curated a major exhibition at the London Barbican, Reporting the World: John Pilger's Eyewitness Photographers, a tribute to the great black-and-white photographers he has worked alongside. In 2003, he was awarded the prestigious Sophie Prize for '30 years of exposing injustice and promoting human rights.' In 2009, he was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize.
His latest film is The War You Don't See (2010), was premiered in London both in the cinema and on television.
Cost: Members $15 Senior members / students $10 Guests $20
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