Which Way is the Front Line From Here?
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Which Way is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington Director Sebastian Junger
One great journalist salutes another in Which Way is the Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington, a moving combat documentary premiering Thursday, April 18 on HBO. The film is celebrated author-turned-director Sebastian Junger’s tribute to Hetherington, the British-American photojournalist who co-helmed the Oscar-nominated Restrepo with Junger, and tragically lost his life in 2011 while covering Libya’s civil war. Like Restrepo, which ditched political agendas to get at the human core of a platoon of soldiers stationed in Afghanistan, Which Way is the Front Line From Here? pins its focus on the heart and unquenchable drive […]
by R. Kurt Osenlund on Apr 16, 2013 -
Which Way is the Front Line From Here? | Director Sebastian Junger
[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 20, 2:30pm — Prospector Square Theatre, Park City] My film, Which Way Is The Front Line From Here?, is about the death, in combat, of my good friend and colleague Tim Hetherington. In a sense the film would not exist without the tragedy of his death, but I don’t think that’s what you are asking. I pre-sold my film rather than financing it myself — as Tim and I were forced to do with Restrepo — and I was able to hire amazing people to work with. But making a film about Tim’s death took a […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 19, 2013
