[Reader-list] Screening of 'The Killing Fields' at Twilight Film Club, New Delhi

[rohitrellan at aol.in]

The Killing Fields (1984), a remarkable and deeply affecting film, is based upon a true story of friendship, loyalty, the horrors of war and survival, while following the historical events surrounding the US evacuation from Vietnam in 1975. The authentic-looking, unforgettable epic film, directed by Roland Joffe (his first feature film) and produced by David Puttnam (the Oscar victor three years earlier for Chariots of Fire (1981)), was shot on location in Thailand (and Canada). Cambodian doctor, non-actor Haing Ngor, in his film debut, was an actual survivor of the Cambodian holocaust. He was tortured and experienced the starvation and death of his real-life family during the actual historical events revisited in this film.


The film's screenplay, by first-time scripter Bruce Robinson, was adapted from Pulitzer Prize-winning NY Times reporter Sydney Schanberg's The Death and Life of Dith Pran from The NY Times Magazine. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Sam Waterston), Best Director (first-timer Roland Joffe), and Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Bruce Robinson) and won three Oscars: Best Supporting Actor (Haing S. Ngor), Best Cinematography (Chris Menges), and Best Film Editing (Jim Clark). 


The film will be presented by Anupama Chandra.


Anupama Chandra is a film editor, with a diploma in film editing from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, India. She also has a Masters in English Literature from the University of Oxford. Over the last ten years she has been working as an editor on several documentary films.





Time

Saturday, July 2 · 6:30pm - 9:30pm







Location

Hall of Life Devine, Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts & Communication
New Mehrauli Road, Adchini, New Delhi - 110 017