War fixers, the invisible reporters

SUNDAY 13 OCTOBER – 2.30 pm

This day of documentary screenings is organised with the support of :

War fixers, the invisible reporters

Directed by Arnaud Froger and Robin Grassi

Production: Bottoms Up / Reporters without borders

The documentary War fixers, the invisibles reporters was made by Reporters Without Borders journalists Arnaud Froger and Robin Grassi. In this unique tribute to the shadowy workers of reporting in war zones, RSF followed the daily lives of fixers Andrii Kolesnyk, Oleksandra Aleksandrenko and Kyrylo Sirchenko as they worked in Ukraine with Morgane Bona, a correspondent for Libération, James de Caupenne, an independent documentary filmmaker, and Philippe Lobjois, a journalist for Ouest-France.
In their daily lives in the capital, Kyiv, or on assignment close to the front line, these fixers in their thirties are the faces of a little-known profession at the heart of the news business, and of a generation that risks its life to expose their country’s darkest hours.
Alternately interpreters, drivers, guides and intermediaries between journalists and their contacts, fixers enable reporters to reach the most dangerous and isolated areas of Ukraine. Unsung heroes of the news business, they are on the frontline, helping the media and journalists to work and preventing this conflict from becoming a forgotten war.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with Arnaud Froger, Robin Grassi and Philippe Lobjois.

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Pavillon
Place Gauquelin Despallières
Duration : 25 min.
Free admission