REPORTER
90 minutes, 2008 (Documentary)
Produced by Mikaela Beardsley ’87 and Steven Cantor
Executive Producer: Ben AffleckPANELISTScreening:
Saturday, 3:00 p.m.
REPORTER
is a feature documentary about Nicholas Kristof, the two-time Pulitzer Prize
winning columnist for the New York Times, who almost single-handedly put the
crisis in Darfur on the world map. The film puts the viewer in Kristof’s
pocket, revealing the man and his methods, and just how and why real reporting
is vital to our democracy, our world-awareness, and our capacity to be a force
for good. But REPORTER has a second agenda. By tracking a newsman, we track his
news.
In
the summer of 2007, Kristof traveled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to
shine his light into the darkest pockets of conflict and poverty. On this trip,
Kristof brought with him two young Americans, a student and a teacher. Their
reflections of the heart-wrenching journey were posted alongside Kristof’s
bi-weekly columns.
Filmmaker Bio:
Mikaela Beardsley grew up in Tehran, Iran during the 1970s. She studied
literature at Princeton, and has been working in documentary film and
television since 1993. Her producing credits include James Blunt:
Return to Kosovo (Atlantic Records), I Am An Animal (HBO), and Martin
Scorsese Presents Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (TCM). The
supervising producer on the seven-part series Martin Scorsese Presents:
The Blues (PBS), Mikaela is currently working with Nicholas Kristof and
Sheryl WuDunn on the television adaptation of their upcoming book on
women and girls in the developing world.
