2005 documentary short subject Academy Award nominee The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club, and the documentary feature KordaVision will be screened at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 28, as the next installment in the 2006–2007 Contemporary Documentaries series at the Academy's Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. The series is presented by the Academy Foundation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Admission is free.
Directed and produced by Dan Krauss, The Death of Kevin Carter examines the life and career of a member of a group of white South African photojournalists known as "The Bang Bang Club." The Bang Bang Clubbers covered the day-to-day reality of apartheid, the horrendous living conditions in black townships, and the effects of civil war in southern Sudan. According to the Academy's press release, Carter's "adrenaline-chasing credo was to get the picture at any cost, and while his photos became emblems of a troubled continent, Carter paid a heavy personal price for recording these haunting images."
KordaVision focuses on Alberto Diaz Gutiérrez, better known as Alberto Korda, an eclectic photographer who captured the Cuban Revolution of the late 1950s. (One of his subjects was Che Guevara.) In KordaVision, the photographer explains how his images influenced the understanding of the Cuban Communist Revolution, both in Cuba and elsewhere. The documentary was directed by Héctor Cruz Sandoval, and produced by Gilberto Lazaro Martinez, José Antonio Jiménez, Cruz Sandoval, Mary Ruth Nieto, and Gina Pérez. Following the screening, Cruz Sandoval will discuss the making of KordaVision and take questions from the audience.
All screenings in the series are free and open to the public. The Linwood Dunn Theater is located at the Academy's Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study, 1313 North Vine Street, at the northwest corner of Fountain Avenue and Vine Street in Hollywood. Parking is available behind the building through the entrance on Homewood Avenue, one block north of Fountain. For more information, call (310) 247-3600 or (310) 206-FILM.
CARLA'S LIST (2006) by Michael Schüpbach: Film Review
Kevin did some amazing work. His photos have so much feeling. He must have had that within him, too. How sad that his life ended too early. What burden he must have carried.
I think he should have helped that little girl, he shouldnèt have listened to his boss(or whoever the man was who said donèt pick up the children;for they having diseases.) i mean come on ! What kind of world do we live in. Almost Hell
Really felt deep sorrow. Anyhow he is living.Even death appears creative.
i fill so sorry for him its like why whould he do that. But i know from my heart he was a good guy, brother,uncle, dad,nephew.thats all i had to say but im really really sorry about his death and the picture he took and the little girl death too.im so so sorry
adoro suas fotos parabéns
I hope I can find those two on DVD.