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Oscar-Nominated "Restrepo" Director Killed in Libya.
Two photographers were tragically killed and two others wounded on Wednesday while covering the mounting conflict in Misurata, Libya's third-largest city. Tim Hetherington, a photographer and the director of the film "Restrepo," a 2010 documentary on the Afghan War, was killed on the front lines. Getty photographer Chris Hondros died within a few hours of the shooting from severe brain trauma. The other two wounded photographers, Guy Martin and Michael Christopher Brown, appear to be in stable condition. "Restrepo," which chronicles a year in the life of a platoon in the Afghanistan's Korengal valley, won the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and was a 2011 nominee for the Academy Award for best documentary. The news of the deaths was first reported on the Facebook wall of photographer André Liohn, who was writing from the hospital. Hetherington's final tweet read, "In besieged Libyan city of Mistrata. Indiscriminate shelling by Qaddafi forces. No sign of NATO."
- Wow it amaze me how they use the same trap and it works every fuckn timegeorgesIII
- what a shame. restrepo was great. a glimpse into war I hope to never have first handglitchsbrew
- He died doing what he lovedutopian