Description
This is an unmissable opportunity to join one of the great documentary makers of our time, as we celebrate the work of the legendary John Pilger.
John is acclaimed as a trailblazing journalist tackling imperialist and authoritarian regimes and holding those in power to account. He’s made more than 60 films, exposing injustices and human rights abuses around the world.
Today, he laments what he sees as a contrived consensus of ignorance and prejudice in international affairs and the refusal to question our largely Americanised worldview. Serious dissent from the status quo or a ‘whitewashed version’, he says, can be dangerous.
Join John Pilger for this special in-conversation event with fellow journalist Anthony Hayward and hear from this fearless, award-winning journalist.
About the Speaker
John Pilger
Australian journalist John Pilger has worked for Reuters, the Daily Mirror, and has been a chief foreign correspondent and reported from all over the world, covering numerous wars, notably Vietnam. After moving to the United States, he reported the upheavals there in the late 1960s and 1970s, and marched from Alabama to Washington following the assassination of Martin Luther King. He was in the same room when Robert Kennedy, the presidential candidate, was assassinated in June 1968. He has reported world-exclusive dispatches from Cambodia and East Timor and conducted a four-year investigation on the drug Thalidomide. He has won an American TV Academy Award, an Emmy, and a British Academy Award, a BAFTA, for his documentaries. The British Film Institute includes his 1979 film Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia among the ten most important documentaries of the twentieth century. In 2017, the British Library announced a John Pilger Archive of all his written and filmed work.
About the Chair
Anthony Hayward
Anthony Hayward has written about television and film for more than 30 years. He is author of the acclaimed books In the Name of Justice: The Television Reporting of John Pilger and Which Side Are You On? Ken Loach and His Films, as well as the biographies Julie Christie and Phantom: Michael Crawford Unmasked. He has been a regular contributor to The Guardian since 2009, writes for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, is a researcher and consultant on television documentaries, and has often been heard on BBC and commercial radio.
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