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The World Stopped Watching
20031 h 21 min 52 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Peter Raymont
Production: Peter RaymontHarold CrooksLindalee TraceyÉric MichelClaude Bonin (National Film Board of Canada)
Script: Peter RaymontHarold Crooks
Co-produced by White Pine Pictures and the National Film Board of Canada, with the participation of TVOntario, SCN, Knowledge Network, CFCF12, CIDA, the Rogers Documentary Fund and the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund.
The World Stopped Watching is a sequel to The World Is Watching (1987), a cinema verité investigation of the role journalists played in the US-financed Contra war against Nicaragua's revolutionary Sandinista government. Broadcast around the globe and honoured with many awards, including a Genie Award for Best Documentary, a Gold Hugo (Chicago) and prizes from Nyon (Switzerland) and Berlin, The World Is Watching revealed the precarious decision-making process behind the nightly news.
Filmmakers Peter Raymont and Harold Crooks returned to Nicaragua in 2002 to discover what became of the people and a nation no longer in the glare of the world's media. Accompanied by legendary Newsweek photographer Bill Gentile and acclaimed Boston Globe columnist Randolph "Ry" Ryan, whow covered the Contra war, the filmmakers travel throughout the impoverished country. They encounter Nicaraguans from every level of society, including former president Daniel Ortega. Gilles Paquin, of Montreal's La Presse, offers a current view of the country, including the unfolding drama where, for the first time in Latin American history, a former president has been jailed for corruption.
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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
- Peter Raymont
- Harold Crooks
- Lindalee Tracey
- Claude Bonin
- executive producer
- Éric Michel
- commissioning editor
- Rudy Buttignol
- writer
- Peter Raymont
- Harold Crooks
- director of photography
- John Westheuser
- sound recordist
- Peter Sawade
- editor
- Michael Fuller
- additional music
- Rob Carli
- assistant director
- Andrew Munger
- interpreter
- Yunit Armengol
- fixer
- Yunit Armengol
- archival research
- Abbie Fields
- location manager
- Abbie Fields
- production supervisor
- Kate Harrison
- post-production supervisor
- Jeff Wilson
- translation
- Yunit Armengol
- Antonio Arribas
- Mary Luz Mejia
- Yolande Tremblay
- assistant editor
- Alyson Fuller
- online editor
- Andrew Mandziuk
- sound editor
- Janice MacNeil
- assistant sound editor
- Jakob Thiesen
- sound re-recording
- Serge Boivin
- Jean Paul Vialard
- production assistance
- Kate Russell
- Sean Cassidy
- production accounting
- Dorothy Bastien
- Patricia Johnston
- legal counsel
- Goodmans LLP
- Gylane St-Georges
- administrator
- Maryse Chapdelaine
- administrator - assistant
- Marie-Christine Nadon
- Daniel Gosselin
- post-production
- Claude Cardinal
- post-production facilities
- Kitchen Sync Digital Audio
- The Fearless Film & Video Corporation
Awards
- Honorable Mention - Category: War & Peace International Film and Video Festival
- Special Mention - Award given by the Jury from the European UnionFIPADOC- Festival international documentaire
- Special Mention - Category: Reportage and current affairsFIPADOC- Festival international documentaire
- Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Documentary ProgramGemini Awards