Kicking off its 2007 Leadership Summit in Washington, broadcasting's womens' organization recognized a filmmaker battling "compassion fatigue" among TV viewers.
POST 9/11 DOCUMENTARY WINS AWRT AWARD
American Women in Radio and Television bestowed its first One Shared World International Outreach Award to documentary filmmaker Beth Murphy yesterday. Her newest film, Beyond the 11th, traced the impact a pair of American women, widowed by the 9/11 terrorist attacks, have had in helping women widowed by the war in Afghanistan.
Murphy, who accepted her award at a reception kicking off AWRT’s annual Leadership Summit in Washington, said she hoped the film would be an antidote to “compassion fatigue.” This “dulling sensitivity to crisis” sets in particularly among TV viewers steeped in news about today’s world, she said. “Viewers feel helpless in the face of war, death and famine. We need to connect with stories that help us overcome these feelings.”
Beyond the 11th has been featured on Oprah and will debut at the Tribeca Film Festival in April.
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AWRT’s Leadership Summit takes place today and tomorrow at the Renaissance M Street hotel in Washington D.C.’s West End. The group’s One Shared World International Outreach Award was presented on International Womens’ Day, which aims to raise awareness of global poverty.
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