Good Kurds Bad Kurds 8 of 8

It is about Kurds and how US foreign policy is neglecting human right abuse by Turkey. According to this 3500 Kurdish villages burnt down by Turkey. It is a massacre done by Turkey.

Director/Producer: Kevin McKiernan
Cinematographers: Haskell Wexler,Kevin McKiernan
Editor: Thomas G. Miller
Music: Bronwen Jones

Good Kurds, Bad Kurds -- nine years in the making -- delves deeply into the U.S.'s complicity in this human rights disaster, indicting the mainstream news outlets that, by staying quiet, help perpetuate the violence. Shot in part by three-time Academy Award winner Haskell Wexler, Good Kurds, Bad Kurds travels from Santa Barbara, California, home to a small Kurdish refugee community, to Washington, D.C, where an activist struggles to gain the attention of lawmakers and the media and fight his deportation, and to Turkey, where the anti-Kurd campaign continues.


Awards

Recipient, Ochberg Fellowship 2006, Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, University of Washington.

Mole Journalism Award, Cyrano's Journal, 2001.

Best Documentary, Good Kurds, Bad Kurds, CINE Golden Eagle, June 2001.

Best Documentary, Sedona International Film Festival, Sedona, Arizona, Good Kurds, Bad Kurds, March 2001.

Recipient, Sundance Documentary Fund Grant, 2001.

The Chris Award, Best Documentary, Columbus Film Festival, Good Kurds, Bad Kurds, October 2000.

Best Documentary, Sidewalk Moving Pictures Festival, Birmingham, Alabama, Good Kurds, Bad Kurds, October 2000.

Audience Award, Denver International Film Festival, Good Kurds, Bad Kurds, October 2000.

Best Documentary, Rhode Island International Film Festival, Good Kurds, Bad Kurds, August 2000.

Invited Speaker, Amnesty International and Congressional Human Rights Caucus, Washington, D.C. June 22, 2000.

Eyewitness Testimony, 'The Reign of Terror' on the Pine Ridge Reservation, Congressional Briefing for Leonard Peltier, Washington, D.C., May 17, 2000.

Best Documentary, Atlanta Film and Video Festival, Good Kurds, Bad Kurds, April 2000.

Human Rights Prize, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Good Kurds, Bad Kurds, March 2000.

Project Censored: Top Ten Stories of 1999,Turkey's War on the Kurds.

Recipient, Soros Foundation Documentary Fund Grant ($40,000), 1999

Recipient,John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Grant ($50,000), 1999.

Recipient,Winston Foundation for World Peace Grant ($40,000), 1999.

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• Kurd
• kurdistan
• Ocalan
• Apo
• PKK
• Turkey
• human
• right
• record
• roj
• tv
• massacre

[jamalak74u]

i cant believe UN and EU pay more attention to palestine & S sudan than they do to kurdistan

the only way for the kurds to live in peace is full independence. Kurds have had enough of being oppressed by their neighbours and the whole world watches but they cant see & they r too afraid to stick their nose into it, but when it comes to palestine or south sudan they are ready to even have a war to solve their problems... Arghhhh i guess Kurds r invisible and only god can see them and no 1 else.

[krevo22]

Well done Kevin...nice documentery and very informative...