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21/11/2011

Rory Peck Awards Hail Courageous Cameramen

The skill, courage and enterprise of freelance news and current affairs cameramen has been recognised at the annual Rory Peck Awards ceremony.
Sponsored by Sony Professional it was held in mid November at London's BFI Southbank, hosted by the BBC's Mishal Husain and Channel 4's Alex Thomson.
Belgian freelancer Ahmed Bahaddou was presented with the Rory Peck Award for News for his extraordinary frontline footage of rebels fighting Gaddafi forces in Western Libya.
In what has been a stand out year for news entries, the judges praised Bahaddou for his enterprise, determination and skill.
They said his footage was "everything you could want and more. It is incredibly composed shooting. You can almost feel the bullets whistling past you."
American freelancer Abdallah Omeish, who was born in Libya, won the Rory Peck Award for Features, for his Benghazi film, Libya: Through the Fire - a portrait of the city, and one of its sons, Mohammed al-Nabbous - the first person to broadcast from within Libya and report on events in English and Arabic.
Jezza Neumann was awarded the Sony Professional Impact Award for Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children, which the judges described as 'astonishing'. They were impressed by the continuity and emotional impact of his film about the harsh reality of life for three children in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe, and by the quality of camerawork, especially given the difficulties of operating inside Zimbabwe.
"It's been an extraordinary year for the Rory Peck Awards - incredibly strong entries across all of the categories and three outstanding winners," said Tina Carr, Director of the Rory Peck Trust.
Olivier Bovis, Head of AV at Sony Professional said: "We are delighted to be here this evening to join the Rory Peck Trust in congratulating not only this year's winners but all the finalists for the fantastic work they have been doing over the last year."
Rory Peck (December 13, 1956 – October 3, 1993) was a Northern-Ireland freelance war cameraman who was killed while covering the events of the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993.
Although Peck was born in the United States he was from a family from Northern Ireland who went on to Sandhurst for officer training, before taking up various other career choices, then moving into TV camera work.
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