The feature documentary debut of Orban Wallace, Another News Story was filmed during the 2015 Syrian refugee crisis. Wallace’s film follows refugees from the Greek island of Lesbos, into Hungary and Croatia and across Europe to a hoped-for sanctuary. The film chronicles a journey beset by physical deprivation and danger, bureaucratic and political obstacles and thousands of miles of uncertainty. But the British director also turns his camera on the world media on assignment in the Mediterranean as they cover the unfolding humanitarian tragedy. In today’s chaotic era, what is the “who, how, and why” of the 24-hour breaking news cycle as it relates to global conflicts and crises? When faced with immeasurable suffering, how do they balance their humanity with professional objectivity and the day to day mundanity of their jobs. Is it possible to walk the line between a good story and sensationalism? Or, glazed, do you just go after Another News Story?
The release in cinemas next month of young British film-maker Orban Wallace’s Another News
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ALMOST every day we see in often horrific clarity the struggle of refugees fleeing from their homes because of war ...
The opening images of Another News Story are ones with which we’re all familiar. Exhausted men, women and ...
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This film, recently screened for the first time, should be seen by everybody. It is the first film by talented Orban Wallace ...
KVIFF 2017
ZFF 2017
IDFA 2017 ‘Best of Fest’ section
Lugano Human Rights Festival 2017
Watch Docs Warsaw 2017
Paris Signs of the Night 2017
Festival Cinema Mediterranean Brussels 2017
11th Cinema Verite Iran International Documentary Film Festival 2017
This Human World Vienna 2017
Glasgow International Film Festival 2018
Manchester International Film Festival 2018
Human International Documentary Film Festival Oslo 2018
One World International Human Rights Festival Romania 2018
Le Voci dell’Inchiesta Pordenone Italy 2018
East End Film Festival 2018
HRAFF Melbourne 2018
Imagine India Film Festival Madrid 2018
Newport Beach Film Festival 2018
FFDUL in Locarno 2018
East End Film Festival 2018
Wexford 2018
Syria Film Festival 2018
Syria Film Festival (Denmark tour) 2019