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Armed Only With a Camera: "Since Brent was killed, more than 400 journalists have been killed around the world, and as of a few days ago 333 are locked up overseas."
In this vHopeful Conversation, Vanessa Hope speaks with director Craig Renaud and producer–photojournalist Juan Arredondo about their Oscar‑nominated short Armed Only With a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud, exploring how Craig’s journey to bring his brother’s body home from Ukraine becomes the present‑tense spine for a film that interweaves two decades of verité reporting from Iraq, Haiti, Somalia, Honduras, and beyond. They discuss the promise Craig and Brent made to keep filming even if one of them was killed, the emotional and ethical difficulty of turning the camera onto their…
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