A Cry from the Grave
Directed byLeslie Woodhead
Written byLeslie Woodhead
Produced byLeslie Woodhead
Narrated byLeslie Woodhead (UK)
Bill Moyers (US)
Production
companies
Distributed byBBC Worldwide
Release date
  • 27 November 1999 (1999-11-27)
Running time
104 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguagesEnglish
Serbo-Croat

A Cry from the Grave or Srebrenica: A Cry from the Grave is a 1999 British documentary film about the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. The film was directed and produced by Leslie Woodhead.

Using testimony of survivors and relatives the documentary tells the story of the massacre of over 8,000 Bosnian men and boys by the Bosnian Serb Army.[1] The documentary was used in the war crimes trial at The Hague.[1]

Awards

The documentary won the Special Jury Award for Feature-Length Documentary at the 12th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in December 1999.[2][3] At the 13th Biarritz International Festival of Audiovisual Programming in January 2000 the documentary won the silver FIPA award in the Documentary and Essay category.[4][5] The documentary won the Mayor of Prague award at the second One World Film Festival in Prague in April 2000.[6][7]

In June 2000 the documentary won the Air Canada Grand Prize and the Best History or Biography Programme award at the 21st Banff Television Festival.[8][9] In September 2000 the documentary won the Information category award at the fifth Gouden Beelden.[10] It won first prize in the International Television category at the 33rd Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in 2001.[11] The documentary was nominated for the Outstanding Background/Analysis of a Single Current Story - Programs award at the 22nd News & Documentary Emmy Award in September 2001.[12]

Broadcast

The documentary was broadcast on BBC Two in the UK on 27 November 1999 as part of the Storyville series.[13] In the Netherlands, the documentary was broadcast on Ned 3 on 6 December 1999.[14] In the US, the documentary was broadcast on PBS on 17 January 2000 and narrated by Bill Moyers.[15][16]

The broadcast of the documentary on Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) in the summer of 2001, on the sixth anniversary of the massacre, resulted in a storm of protests, including opposition politicians calling for the dismissal of senior RTS staff.[17][18]

References

  1. ^ a b "Storyville: Tales of the unexpected". The Independent. London, U.K. 17 October 2008. Archived from the original on 9 December 2008. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Award winners". Amsterdam, Netherlands: International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  3. ^ "Antelope Bosnia doc wins Amsterdam prize". Broadcast. London, U.K. 17 December 1999. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  4. ^ "Le palmarès du 13e Fipa de Biarritz". Libération. Paris, France. 24 January 2000. p. French. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  5. ^ Legrand, Dominique (26 January 2000). "Une marée montante de ricochets et d'éclats Trois Fipa aux coproductions RTBF D'or et d'argent, le palmarès". Le Soir (in French). Brussels, Belgium. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  6. ^ "A Cry From the Grave". Prague, Czech Republic: One World Film Festival. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  7. ^ "Festival filmů o lidských právech připomínají další projekce". iDNES.cz (in Czech). Prague, Czech Republic. 18 April 2000. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  8. ^ Hoffman, Andy (13 June 2000). "Banff festival honours refugee film". The Globe and Mail. Toronto, Canada. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  9. ^ Tillson, Tamsen (13 June 2000). "Docu 'Grave' gets top prize at Banff TV fest". Variety. Los Angeles, U.S. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  10. ^ "Winnaars Nederlandse Academy Awards/Gouden Beelden (tussen haakjes de categorie)" (in Dutch). Arnhem, Netherlands: Alles op een Rij. 21 December 2011. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  11. ^ "33rd Annual Awards: 2001 (for 2000 coverage)". Washington, D.C., U.S.: Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. Archived from the original on 8 January 2011.
  12. ^ "The 22nd Annual News and Documentary Emmy Award nominees were announced by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences" (PDF). New York, U.S.: National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. 19 July 2001. p. 9. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  13. ^ "A Cry from the Grave". London, U.K.: British Film Institute. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  14. ^ "Een veld vol lijken". NRC Handelsblad (in Dutch). Amsterdam, Netherlands. 6 December 1999. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  15. ^ "Srebrenica: A Cry from the Grave". Newark, U.S.A.: WNET. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  16. ^ Goodman, Walter (17 January 2000). "Television Review: Dark Hours of Serbian Hatred Filmed by Those Who Knew". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 27 May 2015.
  17. ^ Fletscher, Caroline (18 July 2001). "RTS: Wahrheit ist grausam". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). Berlin, Germany. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  18. ^ Attarashany, Rida (Autumn 2001). "Yugoslavia: turning a corner?" (PDF). Diffusion. Geneva, Switzerland: European Broadcasting Union. p. 29. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 October 2006. Retrieved 16 June 2020.

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