congrats to my friend, Jonathan Sanders, who won THE EDWARD R. MURROW AWARD
Best TV interpretation or documentary on international affairs:
Peter Van Sant, Susan Zirinsky, Peter Schweitzer, Joe Halderman, Jonathan Sanders, Michael Mchugh, Michael Vele, CBS News - 48 Hours, "Hostage: The Seige of Beslan."
Some info on the documentary, which will air on Showtime May 25, here:
Turning Toward America After the Tragedy of Beslan
Lunch at Lever House
BY PRANAY GUPTE - Special to the Sun
May 4, 2006
URL:
http://www.nysun.com/article/32162Dariya Fadeeva of Russia wants to resume her education at a school in America.
"This is a great country," the star of a new Showtime documentary, "Three Days in September," said. "When I went to school in Texas, I wondered about why there was so much security. Then when the terrible things happened in my hometown in Russia, I began to wish that we had similar security."
Ms. Fadeeva is 17. She had just returned to Beslan after a year as an exchange student when she witnessed a terrorist siege of a school, during which nearly 350 hostages were killed — 180 of them children.
"My younger sister, Alia, was among the hostages," Ms. Fadeeva said the other day during a visit to New York for the film's premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. "She fortunately survived, but she was badly injured. The entire tragedy is something that I will never forget."
The documentary covers that tragedy, which took place September 1-3, 2004. Narrated by the Oscar winner Julia Roberts, the film shows how a group of nearly 30 heavily armed Chechen Muslim terrorists stormed School Number One in the town in southern Russia.
<snip> more at:
http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=32162&access=606072