A Tale of Two Prizes: Havana & New York

After observing the reactions of viewers of “State of Fear” at screenings all over the world, Pamela and Peter and I are left with the feeling that the film acts as a kind of Rorschach test, since the most diverse audiences seem to like the film for their own particular reasons, whether it be Nepali pro-democracy activists, Russian human rights defenders, U.S. military personnel, Peruvian victims of political violence, Latin American leftists, U.S. citizens concerned about civil liberties, and so forth...

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This feeling was recently reinforced when we won two great prizes from very different worlds, essentially validating our work from very different political perspectives.  One was the Habana Film Festival “Prize for Best Film or Video About Latin America by a non-Latin American Director” and the other was the Overseas Press Club award for “Best Reporting in Any Medium on Latin America”.  We had a lovely evening at the Mandarin Hotel in the Time Warner Center, to receive the OPC award in the company of our good friends Marlene Braga, Bruni Burres, Paul van Zyl and Alex Wilde, all of them fellow travelers on the long “State of Fear” journey - it was only fitting that we share the acclaim.

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