Docu on women reporting conflict wins award

IN Media Watch Briefs | 11/07/2017

Velvet Revolution, a documentary about the challenges that women journalists the world over face in covering conflict regions, has won the Best Film Award in the Feature Length Documentary section at Kashmir World Film Festival held earlier this month. The film is about journalists combating state and non state actors who try to muzzle and attack them, and has been produced by the International Association of Women in Radio and Television.

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