?Miners Shot Down? wins Best Documentary Emmy

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Miners Shot Down wins Best Documentary Emmy --

Tue, 24 Nov 2015 11:00

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Miners Shot Down, the South African documentary by Rehad Desai which tells the story of the Marikana massacre in August 2012, has won the International Emmy for Best Documentary. The film has appeared at film festivals around the world where it has won numerous awards.

The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the winners of the 43rd International Emmy Awards tonight at a gala event attended by over 1000 international television professionals and hosted by Egyptian Comedian Bassem Youssef at the New York Hilton on 23 November. According to a report by The Daily Vox, Desai stated at the ceremony that the film was difficult to make. It took me three or four months just to recover from dealing with the footage from the massacre. I was born and raised in exile and it was all very close to me, he said. Desai hopes that the Emmy win will encourage local broadcasters to screen the film for South African audiences.

View the Miners Shot Down trailer here.

Full list of 2015 International Emmy Awards Winners:

Arts Programming

Illustre & Inconnu:

Comment Jacques Jaujard a Sauv le Louvre (The Man Who Saved the Louvre)

Ladybirds Films

France

Best Performance by an Actor

Maarten Heijmans in Ramses

De Familie Film & TV / Avro

Netherlands

Best Performance by an Actress

Anneke von der Lippe in yevitne (Eyewitness)

NRK / SVT / DR / YLE Fem / Nordvision Fund

Norway

Comedy

Doce de M e (Sweet Mother)

Globo / Casa de Cinema de Porto Alegre

Brazil

Documentary

Miners Shot Down

Uhuru Productions

South Africa

Drama Series

Engrenages Saison 5 (Spiral Season 5)

Canal Creation Originale / Son et Lumi re / BBC Four

France

Non-English U.S. Primetime Programme

Arrepentidos - El Infierno de Montoya

Fox International Channels Latin America / National Geographic Channel / Fox Telecolombia

United States of America

Non-Scripted Entertainment

50 Ways to Kill Your Mammy

Burning Bright Productions / Brown Bread Productions / Sky 1

United Kingdom

Telenovela

Imp rio (Empire)

Globo

Brazil

TV Movie/Mini-Series

Soldat Blanc (White Soldier)

Canal Creation Originale / Breakout Films

France

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