the bang bang club snapshots from a hidden war

It was released theatrically in the United States on 22 April 2011. Tribeca Film acquired American distribution rights. Entertainment One has distribution rights for Canada. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The film tells the story of four young men and the extremes they went to in order to capture their pictures in the days prior to the downfall of apartheid in South Africa. It is a film adaptation of the book The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War co-written by Greg Marinovich and João Silva who were part of the group of four photographers known as the Bang-Bang Club, the other two members being Kevin Carter and Ken Oosterbroek. They portray the lives of four photojournalists active within the townships of South Africa during the apartheid period, particularly between 19, from when Nelson Mandela was released from prison to the 1994 elections. 'Sinopsis' puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.The Bang Bang Club is a 2010 Canadian-South African biographical drama film written and directed by Steven Silver and stars Ryan Phillippe as Greg Marinovich, Malin Åkerman as Robin Comley, Taylor Kitsch as Kevin Carter, Frank Rautenbach as Ken Oosterbroek and Neels Van Jaarsveld as João Silva.

An immensely powerful, riveting and harrowing book, and an invakuable contribution to the literary genre of war photography., An eye-opening book for readers of Susan Sontag. It tells the story of four remarkable young men, the stresses, tensions and moral dilemmas of working in situations of extreme violence, pain and suffering, the relationships between the four and the story of the end of apartheid.

Ken, the oldest and a mentor to the others, died, accidentally shot while working Kevin, the most troubled of the four, committed suicide weeks after winning his Pulitzer for a photograph of a starving baby in the Sudanese famine., Written by Greg and Joao, The Bang-Bang Club tells their uniquely powerful war stories. Two of them won Pulitzer Prizes for individual photos. The Bang-Bang Club was a group of four young war photographers, friends and colleagues: Ken Oosterbroek, Kevin Carter, Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva, war correspondants during the last years of apartheid, who took many of the photographs that encapsulate the final violent years of racist white South Africa.

The bang bang club snapshots from a hidden war