THE RORY PECK AWARDS 2004
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Philip Cox

Inside Darfur - First Images of the Crisis

Winner: The Sony International Impact Award

Philip Cox's exclusive, haunting images and interviews alerted the world to the crisis. Going inside Darfur with the SLA Rebel Group, Cox interviewed Sudanes soldiers, Chadian refugees and Sudanese bomber pilots.

From these different sources, he produced compelling eye witness evidence that the government was complicit in a campaign of ethnic cleanisng against its own population. The footage was submitted to the United Nations, the European Commission, and the UK Parliament used it to urge for immediate action.

Cameraman's Comment

"In the actual moment of filming what was before me - the atrocities, the burnt-out villages and the tens of thousands of despaerate refugees, unbeknown to the world, sitting in the desert, I did not really absorb the enormity of the tragedy. The immediacy of working in a war zone sometimes does not allow one to see the 'bigger picture' until one has left."

Biography

Philip Cox is a freelance filmmaker from London. Over the last six years, he has made socially oriented and reportage documentaries in Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. He has also been developing documentary cinema with grass roots human rights organisations and indigenous groups. Philip is the director of 'Native Voice Films', which he created with his brother in 1998, and he regularly teaches and lectures for The Documentary Filmmaker Group based in the UK.

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