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Woodstock Film Festival LET'S TALK FILM! Podcast
Rick Rowley | War Journalism & Taking Risks in Order to Bring Dark Truths to Light
LET’S TALK FILM! Podcast Episode #8
This episode features Rick Rowley, an award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist. He is best known for his films DIRTY WARS (2013), DOCUMENTING HATE (2018), and 16 SHOTS (2019). Rowley recently received a Peabody Award for FRONTLINE: Micheal Flynn's Holy War. Rowley’s films highlight his willingness to take risks in order to bring dark truths to light. Rowley has been a jury member and is a long-time friend of the festival.
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Peabody Award Acceptance Speech for FRONTLINE: Micheal Flynn's Holy War
Topics discussed:
- The Role of Wikileaks during the Iraq War
- ITHAKA - a documentary film about the fight to free Julian Assange
- Risk-taking as a journalist
- War crimes unpunished, compartmentalizing terror
- The evolution of documentary filmmaking
- Frontline Series: Micheal Flynn's Holy War
- The continuation of reporting on the war machine