TRUTH DETECTIVES
(86 min) Germany/US
[watch trailer]

MONDAY 10/22, 4:00 PM (SESSION 11)

Director/Producer: Anja Reiss

Description:
More and more war crimes and human rights violations are brought to indictment. In almost all conflict and crisis regions in the world, people are now using their smartphones to document events. And older crimes can be reconstructed using satellite imagery. The documentary shows how state-of-the-art technology helps uncover these crimes worldwide.

Biography:
Anja Reiss is an emerging documentary filmmaker with a background in science journalism. She worked as researcher and journalist for local newspapers and radio stations, before she went on to study an MA in Film Directing of Education and Science Film at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. Her documentaries have been screened on several festivals and won a few awards. For her animation project The Lost Devonian she got 2011 a Karl-Steinbuch Scholarship. Anja is currently working as a freelancer specialized in social and science journalism for German TV broadcasters like arte, ZDF, SWR 3Sat, Phoenix and MDR. Additionally she develops and realizes documentary cinema projects.

Contact Information:
e: kontakt@anjareiss.de
w: https://www.facebook.com/TruthDetectivesFilm/


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