THE RORY PECK AWARDS 2005
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SEAN PAUL LANGAN
Mission Accomplished: Langan in Iraq
Finalist: The Rory Peck Award for Features
“He did this totally on his own, it is in the Rory Peck Awards spirit, he had incredibly good access, he shot images we hadn’t seen before…and was doing the story before anyone else.” Judge's Comment |
Working alone for four months in the Sunni Triangle of Iraq, Sean Paul Langan spent time with US soldiers on patrol, filmed the first in-depth interviews both with Iraqi insurgents and outside Abu Ghraib prison detailing allegations of torture and abuse three months before they were revealed in the West.
Cameraman's Comment
Using a video-diary style and spending longer in the field, Sean Paul Langan says “I am able to get better access than if I was with a larger crew… people find a single camera-operator less threatening in my experience…as a single operator cameraman, I simply hold my camera at arms-length when I want to shoot myself talking rubbish.”
Biography
Sean PaulLangan’s credits include Nightmare in Paradise (BBC2, 1998), a three-part series about his search for kidnapped hostages in Kashmir; Langan Behind The Lines (BBC2, 2001), a five-part series which included the first in-depth look at life under the Taliban, ‘Langan in Zimbabwe’ (BBC2, 2002), an undercover report on political violence in Zimbabwe. In 2004 he filmed ‘Travels with a Gringo' in Mexico, 3 x 60 mins, series for Channel 4.
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