The film – entitled For Neda – looks at her life and death through a series of firsthand interviews with her family, together with amateur video footage both before and after she was killed.
The book desperately needs the kind of illumination that comes from firsthand interviews and the authors' own interpretive voices.
Lanzmann wrote and directed eight films on the Holocaust and Israel, using firsthand interviews to construct his narratives.
Below are a few firsthand interviews as recorded by Paige Donner at the Govs' Summit in Beverly Hills.
Long enough for Mr. Martin to have a firsthand interview with the mother of a subject who is 82.
Desperate for firsthand accounts, the corralled reporters, who had travelled from across the world to document the historic event, began interviewing one another.
Desperate for firsthand accounts, the corralled reporters, who had travelled from across the world to document the historic event, eventually began interviewing one another.
There was a lull as we waited for updates, and the reporters, trapped in a warehouse with little access, desperate for firsthand accounts of any kind, and with little to do before the agreement was released, decided to fill the time by interviewing one another.
What will be the source for firsthand news if we don't have a journalist class?
Rather than dropping the story altogether, they shifted to the more difficult challenge of writing and filming a drama nearly in real time, with firsthand reporting and interviews with government sources that at one point set off objections from lawmakers, who feared that the film would draw on classified information or become a campaign tool for President Obama.
TANNA EYEWITNESS: UNICEF's Alice Clements is available for interviews on her firsthand experience of delivering aid on Tanna – one of the hardest-hit islands in Vanuatu – where many homes have been flattened, crops are damaged, water is contaminated and health centres are badly affected.
