Al gore Documentary awarded

Al Gore, Iraq war documentaries awarded


Movies about the war in Iraq and forced child labour in South America have earned top honours from the International Documentary Association.
James Longley's Iraq in Fragments, which offers intimate portraits of life among everyday Iraqis, won the group's feature documentary award over the weekend.
The short film award went to Marcelo Bukin for Angel's Fire (Fuego de Angel).
In his speech, he described his visually ambitious film as "a kind of poem about sacrificing souls and bodies".
American actor Morgan Freeman presented both awards.
Former US vice-president Al Gore opened the Hollywood ceremony by stressing the importance of documentaries to the health and vitality of American democracy.
Mr Gore was the inspiration for Davis Guggenheim's environmental documentary, An Inconvenient Truth.
The film received an award for representing both an activist spirit and a lyric vision.
Mr Gore said: "Newspapers are increasingly shrinking and losing advertising, and as a result, our national conversation of democracy has been shrinking".
"There are lots of people who know the details of Russell Crowe and K-Fed," he said.
"What's missing is serious discussion about serious issues...
"Our democracy is achieving an opportunity for new life and receiving newfound energy because of the vitality and creativity of documentary film-makers."
Actress Jane Fonda was on hand to present a lifetime achievement award to Oscar-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?).
She said to Gore: "I pray you find a platform - whether as a documentary film-maker or president of the United States, so that your democratic values are embedded in the DNA of this country".
- Reuters

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