Ban of India's Daughter and other films silences debate on key issues
March 6, 2015 4:01 PM ET
What do Delhi, Beijing, and Villiers-sur-Marne have in common, but Ouagadougou does not? The first three recently banned access to films their governments deemed inappropriate. But a film festival in the fourth, the capital of Burkina Faso in West...
News from the Committee to Protect Journalists, October 2013
November 4, 2013 12:44 PM ET
CPJ launches US report Following CPJ's release of its report on the state of press freedom in the United States, the organization is pursuing high-level meetings with the White House. CPJ had drafted six recommendations that were shared with...
Sri Lanka seeks to ID sources for Channel 4 film
March 5, 2013 5:09 PM ET
New York, March 5, 2013--The Sri Lankan Defense Ministry says it wants to identify sources who provided information to the UK-based broadcaster Channel 4 for a new documentary alleging that government forces committed war crimes during the country's long civil...
New film "High Tech, Low Life" on Chinese bloggers
May 1, 2012 5:36 PM ET
"High Tech, Low Life," a new documentary about Chinese bloggers directed by Stephen Maing, debuted at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival in New York on April 19. It documents the lives of Zola (Zhou Shuguang) and Tiger Temple (Zhang...
‘Crude’ filmmaker’s raw footage subject to subpoena
May 7, 2010 3:01 PM ET
A filmmaker’s raw footage is much like a photographer’s unedited images or a reporter’s notebooks—a private record of their reporting that is rarely disclosed to others. On Thursday, a federal judge in New York ruled that a private firm...