THE RORY PECK AWARDS 2007
Sponsored by Sony
Ruud Elmendorp - Dutch
I am Joseph KonyFinalist: The Rory Peck Award for Hard News
This film is about a rare meeting with Joseph Kony, the feared leader of the Ugandan rebel movement, Lord's Resistance Army, who emerges from his hide-out in the jungle in Northern Congo for peace talks and a news conference. He is guarded by his child soldiers who are blamed for maiming opponents in a twenty-year campaign of terror. Kony himself is accused of abducting the children. Along with four of his most senior commanders, Kony is now top of the International Criminal Courts warrant list.
The judges said: “This is a well-constructed, accurate piece of journalism which manages to convey a real sense of danger – of menace…concentrating on the faces of the child soldiers in a sequence of slow shots shows great subtlety and adds to the chilling atmosphere of the bizarre news conference.”
Cameraman's Comment
“I managed to join a delegation of Ugandan elders and religious leaders that were going to meet Kony in the Congo, where he was hiding with his child soldiers. I flew in by military plane from Uganda, travelled for 13-hours overland by truck, entering the jungle on foot. I only had two tapes, and no way to charge the batteries of the camera.”
BiographyRuud Elmendorp is a Dutch television correspondent in Africa, working for various organisations including RTL Netherlands, Voice of America, Reuters, and several streaming media on the Internet, like Rocketboom. His television career began in regional and national television in the Netherlands in 1992. He became freelance in 2001 spending most time since in Africa. He works alone, researching, shooting, scripting, editing and voicing all his work himself. His report on the Uganda rebel leader Joseph Kony won the 2006 International Award at the Videoreporter Festival in Berlin.
The
Trust | Awards | Training
| The Free Lens | Links
| Feedback | Home
The Rory Peck Trust
2 Grosvenor Gardens, London SW1W 0DH, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7730 1411
Fax: +44 -(0)20 7730 1428
e-mail: info@rorypecktrust.org
The Rory Peck Trust, Registered charity no. 1071844 in England and Wales, Limited Company no: 3552486
Sony is a registered trademark of Sony Corporation