{"id":11670,"date":"2011-04-20T18:37:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T17:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=11670"},"modified":"2011-04-20T20:25:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T19:25:01","slug":"tim-hetherington-reportedly-killed-in-libya-restrepo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/04\/20\/tim-hetherington-reportedly-killed-in-libya-restrepo\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Hetherington reportedly killed in Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11672\" title=\"Tim Hethrington filming Restrepo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Tim-Hethrington-filming-Restrepo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Reports are emerging that filmmaker and photojournalist <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timhetherington.com\/\">Tim Hetherington<\/a><\/strong> has been killed in Libya.<\/p>\n<p>He was reportedly killed in an attack whilst on assignment covering <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2011_Libyan_civil_war\">the Libyan civil war<\/a> and his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimHetherington\/status\/60293090983940096\">last update on his Twitter feed<\/a> was:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In besieged Libyan city of Misrata. Indiscriminate shelling by Qaddafi forces. No sign of NATO<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fellow photographer Andre Liohn <a href=\"http:\/\/static1.businessinsider.com\/image\/4daf159bcadcbb4124160000\/libya-photogs.jpg\">wrote this on his Facebook page<\/a> earlier today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sad news Tim Hetherington died in Misrata now when covering the front line. Chris Hondros is in a serious  status. Michel Brown and Guy are wounded but fine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A regular contributor to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/contributors\/tim-hetherington\">Vanity Fair<\/a>, Hetherington reported on wars for the last decade and along with author and journalist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sebastian_Junger\">Sebastian Junger<\/a>, co-directed the recent documentary <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/restrepothemovie.com\/\">Restrepo<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Detailing a year in the life of US soldiers stationed in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Korengal_Valley\">Korengal valley<\/a> in Afghanistan, it won the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and got nominated for the Best Documentary Oscar.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-DjqR6OucBc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is a lengthy discussion about the film Hetherington did with Peter Bergen at the New America Foundation last summer:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tGo9ZjjZKWc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Also worth looking at is this short film he made called &#8216;Diary&#8217;, which he uploaded to his <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/timhetherington\">offical Vimeo page<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Of it, he says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;Diary&#8217; is a highly personal and experimental film that expresses the subjective experience of my work, and was made as an attempt to locate myself after ten years of reporting. It&#8217;s a kaleidoscope of images that link our western reality to the seemingly distant worlds we see in the media.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/18497543?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"413\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/18497543\">Diary (2010)<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/timhetherington\">Tim Hetherington<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was also a cameraman on the documentaries <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0433409\/\">Liberia: An Uncivil War<\/a> (2004) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0912580\/\">The Devil Came on Horseback<\/a> (2007), in addition to winning numerous awards for his photography including the World Press Photo of the Year 2007, the Rory Peck Award for Features and an Alfred I duPont award.<\/p>\n<p>> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/article\/2011\/04\/20\/reports_restrepo_director_tim_hetherington_killed_in_libya\">IndieWire report on Hetherington&#8217;s death<\/a><br \/>\n> More on Restrepo at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1559549\/\">IMDb<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Restrepo_(film)\">Wikipedia<\/a><br \/>\n> Tim Hetherington&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timhetherington.com\/\">official site<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/timhetherington\">Vimeo page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports are emerging that photojournalist and filmmaker Tim Hetherington has been killed in Libya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,2],"tags":[1585,2011],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}