Channel 4 shines at One World Media Awards

by admin
May 9, 2012

Jon Snow with Zoe Sale and Callum Macrae
Photo courtesy of Channel 4

Channel 4 took home three awards at the 25th One World Media Awards for its compelling documentary on alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields, and a report on a Somalian runner who is determined to compete in the London Olympics.

John Snow, who was the presenter of One World Media Awards, recalled that Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields is “one of the most important” stories he has ever reported, as it took home both the Television and Documentary Awards.

Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields has been screened for diplomats in Washington D.C., Canadian and European parliaments, by New Zealand parliamentarians and at the United Nations in New York, as well as being broadcast on Australian, Indian and Norwegian television.

The program  has been viewed online by over 750,000 viewers in 30 different countries, and prompted British Prime Minister David Cameron to state that the Sri Lankan Government “does need to be investigated”.

The juries from One World Media described Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields as “a searing piece of rigorous and unflinching journalism” and “an extraordinary and powerful piece of television testimony that forensically analysed a terrible atrocity and built a compelling case to be answered”.

The US Foreign Affairs Committee will be screening Channel 4’s follow-up documentary “Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields: War Crime Unpunished” in Washington D.C. on May 17th.

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