Join us October 8th at 5:00 p.m. as the OHIO Scripps School of Journalism presents an exclusive screening of a powerful film about the plight of Australian journalist Peter Greste!
This event will also include a post-show Q&A with Peter Greste himself
Admission is FREE and open to the public – Tickets are required
About the film
The Correspondent is based on the true story of award-winning Australian foreign correspondent and journalist Peter Greste. The film details Greste’s two-year arrest and imprisonment in Cairo at the hands of the Egyptian Government after he was charged and convicted of spreading false news and aiding the Muslim Brotherhood while serving as an Al Jazeera English journalist reporting on the unrest in the streets during the Arab Spring uprising. Incorporating flashbacks of Greste’s past reporting assignments — including a fateful BBC assignment in Somalia wherein his friend and colleague Kate Peyton was shot and killed — this poignant film from Australian director Kriv Stenders, and based on Greste’s own memoir, deftly examines the real-world consequences faced by professional journalists who attempt to speak truth to power.
About Peter Greste
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Professor Peter Greste is an award-winning foreign correspondent who spent 25 years working for the BBC, Reuters and Al Jazeera in some of the world’s most volatile places. From Afghanistan, to Latin American, Africa and the Middle East, he reported from the frontlines and beyond, although he is best known for becoming a headline himself, when he and two of his colleagues were arrested in Cairo while working for Al Jazeera, and charged with terrorism offences. In letters smuggled from prison, he described the arrests as an attack on media freedom. The letters helped launch a global campaign that eventually got them released after more than 400 days in prison. He has since become a vocal campaigner and advocate for media freedom – a stance that has earned him awards from Britain’s Royal Television Society, the Walkley Foundation, the RSL’s ANZAC Peace Prize, the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Human Rights Medal, and the International Association of Press Clubs’ Freedom of Speech Award. He has written about his experiences in Egypt and what he regards as the global war on journalism in a book, The First Casualty.
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159 MIN
