The World is Watching

198858 min 46 secFilm: Documentary

Direction: Peter Raymont

Production: Harold CrooksJim MonroPeter Raymont

Script: Peter RaymontHarold Crooks

Produced by Investigative Productions Inc. with the financial assistance of Telefilm Canada, the Ontario Film Development Corporation, and TVOntario, Channel 4, the Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security, OXFAM-Canada, the United Church of Canada, and the Fund for Investigative Journalism.

Who decides what's news? And how do they decide? Are foreign correspondents allowed to tell all that they see? This production focuses on several journalists working in Nicaragua during the negotiations surrounding the Arias Peace Plan in November 1987. It examines how the news business works, revealing the inevitable distortions that become part of the process. ABC TV's Peter Jennings and John Quinones; Newsweek, photographer Bill Gentile; The Boston Globe's Randolph Ryan; Edith Coron; reporter for the Paris newspaper, Libération; and John Snow, correspondent for Britain's ITN TV News.

Subject categories

  • War, Conflict and Peace > Caribbean, Central and South AmericaPeace and Peacekeeping
  • Developing Countries > Central America and the CaribbeanWar, Conflict and Peace
  • Media and Communication > Journalism and News ReportingPrint Media and PublishingSocial IssuesTelevision Broadcasting and Production

Credits

director
Peter Raymont
producer
Harold Crooks
Jim Monro
Peter Raymont
script
Peter Raymont
Harold Crooks
camera
Dan Holmberg
Frank Pineda
Martin Duckworth
Burleigh Wartees
Jonathan Collison
sound
Catherine Van Der Donckt
Felix Zurita
Naftali Larish
John Anderton
editing
Robert Benson
John Kramer
sound editing
Gary Oppenheimer
re-recording
Joe Grimaldi
narrator
Elizabeth Gray
music
Doug Wilde