SPOTLIGHT MEDIA PRODUCTIONS   THE INTERNATIONAL PRESS ACADEMY NAMES ELLEN BURSTYN AND MARTYN BURKE TO RECEIVE MAJOR HONORS, By Adrienne Papp   The Satellite Award by the International Press Academy By Adrienne Papp     Legendary actress Ellen Burstyn and journalist/ novelist/ director Martyn Burke will be on-hand to receive the most prestigious honors bestowed by the International P...

Watching Which Way Is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington is safer than covering combat, but the HBO documentary by author, journalist and filmmaker Sebastian Junger (The Perfect Storm) is not danger-free. It contains images of maimed bodies that may haunt you on a dark night.  But it also reminds you why you must miss the empathic British war photographer/filmmaker terribly. On April 20, 2011, scant  weeks after his and Junger’s chronicle of Am...

by Marla Lewin Marla Lewin co-producer Life After War photo by Jimmy Malecki                           Back in 2002 we were in Park City at Sundance with Doug Pray of Scratch. It was four months after 9/11, and we had heard about what was going on in Afghanistan the previous night over dinner. At lunch the next day with Doug we began discussions about p...