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Frontline Club Awards Ceremony 2013
If you missed the Frontline Club Awards Ceremony 2013 hosted by Channel 4 News anchor Jon Snow watch it back here. The evening featured a keynote speech from from Sir Harold Evans and a special video message from Glenn Greenwald. This year’s winners Ali Ali (Photojournalism), Patrick Kingsley (Print) and Ben Anderson (Broadcast) were announced at the ceremony. The Tribute Award […]
Announcing the winners of the Frontline Club Awards 2013
At a ceremony held at the Frontline Club on 24 October, 2013 and hosted by Jon Snow from Channel 4 News, the winners of the Frontline Club Awards 2013 were announced. The judging panel – Carlotta Gall, Jon Lee Anderson, Allan Little, Patrick Cockburn, Gary Knight Jeremy Bowen and Vaughan Smith – commended all the entrants, but came […]
Roll up! Roll up! Here’s what you can win in the Frontline Fund Awards Night Raffle…
Roll up! Roll up! Here’s what you can win in tonight’s raffle for Frontline Fund at the 2013 Frontline Club Awards. Each year we raise money in support for the Frontline Fund (formerly known as Fixers’ Fund). To donate directly, text CLUB13£5/£10/£20 to 70070. Here are the prizes you can win tonight, which have been […]
Russia Ten Years after Khodorkovsky
By Daniel Alan Kennedy On 23 October the Frontline Club held a panel discussion to mark the ten years since the arrest and imprisonment of Russia’s then-wealthiest man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The discussion was chaired by Edward Lucas, international editor of The Economist and featured: Tonia Samsonova, a journalist from the radio station Ekho Moskvy; Ben Judah, author […]
Meet the Frontline Club Awards 2013 shortlist: Photojournalism
In the days leading up to the Frontline Club Awards 2013 we are featuring an in depth look at each shortlisted entrant. Today is the turn of the photojournalism shortlist, featuring a range of work from Syria, Nigeria, Gaza, Argentina and Kenya. Samuel James is nominated for his work documenting the illegal oil refinery process and […]
#safetystream for freelancers
Our first #safetystream took place at the Frontline Club on Tuesday 22 October with the Frontline Freelance Register and the Rory Peck Trust. In a series of live-streamed panel discussion, freelancers and experts delivered safety tips and guides for freelancers working in conflict zones on risk assessment, communications plans and digital security. You can watch […]
Meet the Frontline Club Awards 2013 shortlist: Broadcast
In the days leading up to the Frontline Club Awards 2013, we are featuring an in depth look at each shortlisted entry. Today is the turn of the broadcast shortlist, and a line-up featuring eye opening and shocking reports from Syria, Mali and Afghanistan. You can read yesterday’s introduction to the print shortlist here. Olly […]
Remembering Alexander Cockburn: His Past and Our Future
By Antonia Roupell On Wednesday 16 October animated anecdotes, socio-political retrospectives and media insights dominated the discussion about the fascinating life of talented journalist Alexander Cockburn. Chaired by journalist and broadcaster Charles Glass, the event at the Frontline Club hosted Cockburn’s brother and Middle East correspondent since 1979, Patrick Cockburn, as well as Ellin Stein, author of the […]
Meet the Frontline Club Awards 2013 shortlist: Print
With the Frontline Club Awards Ceremony coming up on Thursday, over the next three days we will be introducing the shortlisted entrants in each category. Today is the print shortlist, featuring a strong lineup with stories from Syria, Cuba, Yemen and Egypt. François-Xavier Trégan is the Yemen correspondent for Le Monde and is nominated for his piece […]
Granta 125 – After the War: “The story erupted around me”
By Caroline Schmitt The Frontline Club hosted an evening of reflections marking the publication of Granta 125: After the War on 17 October. Two correspondents shared their personal views on developments on the ground, after the battles are fought and the camera teams have moved on to cover other wars.
The Central Park Five + Directors Q&A: “How is it that we were so ready to believe they were guilty?”
by Ratha Lehall On Friday 18 October, the Frontline Club hosted a screening of the documentary The Central Park Five, in partnership with PBS America. The film focuses on five black and hispanic teenagers from Harlem, New York, who were imprisoned after falsely confessing to brutally raping and beating a young woman in Central Park in 1989. […]
Which Way is the Front Line From Here? A film and conversation about Tim Hetherington
By Alex Glynn “Why do young men go to war?” was asked again and again at the Between the Lines follow-up screening of Which Way is the Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington on Thursday 17 October at the Lexi Cinema. It was a question that occupied Hetherington during his lifetime and […]
The New Middle East: Why would you expect it to be easy?
By Caroline Schmitt During a conversation with BBC Arabic’s Samir Farah on 15 October, the BBC’s former Middle East Bureau Chief Paul Danahar gave the audience at the fully-booked Frontline Club a first-hand regional snapshot of the post-Arab Spring Middle East. One of the conclusions Danahar has drawn in his recent book The New Middle East: The […]
Pussy Riot: Punk Rock, Orthodox Christianity, and the Russian Courts
By Daniel Alan Kennedy Less than two weeks after Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova ended her hunger strike against the conditions in her Mordovian prison, on 14 October 2013, filmmakers Maxim Pozdorovkin and Mike Lerner held a Q&A following the screening of their documentary, Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer. The film tracks the journeys of […]
Traitor Hero Comrade Spy: Philby – The Spy Who Went Into the Cold
By George Symonds “Good breeding and good manners are no guarantee of loyalty.” On Friday 11 October 2013, the Frontline Club screened Philby – The Spy Who Went Into the Cold. Kim Philby acted as a Soviet double-agent while serving as chief British intelligence officer in the United States, and while heading MI6’s anti-Soviet section. […]
Announcing the Shortlist for the Frontline Club Awards 2013
We are pleased to announce the shortlist for the Frontline Club Awards 2013. The entries will now go on to be judged by this year’s panel: Carlotta Gall, Jon Lee Anderson, Allan Little, Patrick Cockburn, Gary Knight Jeremy Bowen and Vaughan Smith. Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony at the Frontline Club on Thursday 24 […]
“He took pictures to be seen” – The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington
By Pete Ford Director Sebastian Junger and producer James Brabazon screened Which Way is the Front from Here – The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington, on the 7th October 2013 at the Frontline Club. Tim Hetherington was not only a close friend to both Junger and Brabazon, but also one of the Club’s founding members and a […]
Just Kenya’s problem? The Westgate Mall terror attack and the internationalisation of al-Shabaab
by Sally Ashley-Cound A week after the climax of the 3-day terrorist attack which started on 21 September at the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, the Frontline Club’s First Wednesday panel on 2 October 2013 – chaired by BBC Africa Editor Solomon Mugera – gathered to discuss the Kenyan government’s response to the event and […]
The Forbidden Poet – Salma + Q&A
By George Symonds “The evening breeze blows towards the bride as she takes her leave on her wedding day.” (“New Bride, New Night” by Salma) On Thursday 26 September, the Frontline Club and DocHouse screened the evocative documentary Salma. Hosted at Rich Mix, the film was the latest in the Between the Lines Follow-Up series. […]
Maintaining the line of ethical journalism
By Richard Nield An event at the Frontline Club on 25 September saw a discussion focused on the recently published book by Stewart Purvis and Jeff Hulbert, When Reporters Cross The Line, examining the ethics of reporting in high pressure situations.
Between the Lines Follow-Up Events Across London
Between the Lines was a three-day festival that took place at Rich Mix from 1-3 March. In a series of follow up events we continue to explore the challenges facing documentary makers, investigative journalists and citizen reporters in the new media landscape. Salma Thursday 26 September 2013, 8:00 PM Rich Mix London Growing up in […]
The Battle for Bizerte & the Salafi Debate
By Antonia Roupell Tunisian identity, neighbourhood quarrels, and Jihadist fighters in Syria were among the subjects discussed at the Frontline Club on 23 September. The evening began with a screening of Tunisian journalist, Zuhair Latif’s latest film for BBC Arabic, The Battle for Bizerte. It was followed by an energetic Q&A moderated by BBC Arabic TV presenter, Makki Helal. Fifty-two […]
Pretty Village: Life After War
By Peter Ford On Friday 20 September, the Frontline Club hosted a preview screening of David Evans’ Pretty Village, which was followed by an emotional debate and panel discussion featuring protagonist and producer Kemal Pervanic and journalist at ITV News, Penny Marshall. The debate was moderated by Ed Vulliamy, writer for The Guardian and The Observer.
The Afghanistan Debate
By Dan Tookey The Frontline Club abandoned familiar digs in Paddington on Tuesday 17 September in favour of the packed Shaw Theatre on the Euston Road. In partnership with BBC World Service for Afghanistan, they brought together five leading experts on Afghanistan to discuss the country’s recent past and near future.
Out of the Shadow
By Dan Tookey In the Shadow of a Man was shown to a packed audience at the Frontline Club on Monday 16th September. The documentary explores the lives and opinions of four very different Egyptian women in their fight for women’s rights. The film cuts across class and geography but finds similar threads of resistance […]
Five short films from Syria
By Laura Hughes While the world watches the unfolding crisis in Syria, on Friday 13 September the Frontline Club hosted a special series of short films made in and around the conflict zone. Through the lens of each filmmaker, the selection of five short documentaries explored the different ways in which the choices they make, […]
How can Mexico live without drug money?
By Sally Ashley-Cound From over five years of interviews with members of the main cartels in Mexico, ex-policemen, army generals and officials in the government, journalist Anabel Hernández‘s book Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their God Fathers investigates the corruption and compliancy of the official governmental system and the drug cartels in her home […]
Intervening in Syria: Not Another Iraq or Afghanistan
By Jim Treadway “It’s a town hall style meeting – we quickly come to you,” BBC 4‘s Paddy O’Connell told a sold-out First Wednesday audience at the Frontline Club yesterday evening. The topic was intervention in Syria, and with four experts by his side, O’Connell led a lively back-and-forth with the night’s attendees. “Here we […]
Physical Nostalgia: Rewind This! + Q&A
By George Symonds VHS or Betamax? Is video rental a good idea? Should the public even be allowed to have physical access to films? On Tuesday 3 September, these were some of the era-defining issues raised at the Frontline Club’s screening of Rewind This! Directed by Josh Johnson, Rewind This! beamed the audience into a […]
Screening: Google and the World Brain
By Pete Ford Google and the World Brain, co-produced by the BBC and initially broadcasted as part of their Storyville strand in 2013. Played to a typically crowded Frontline Club on Tuesday 27th August, as part of this summer’s season exploring how technological changes shape the way we view and document the world. Setting out at Christmas […]
