"Another News Story" Film Screening and Discussion with Dr. Eszter Zimanyi

This documentary film provides a critical entry point into news production and how journalists covered the European refugee crisis.

This screening is a part of The Philly Cinematheque, a new initiative housed in the Annenberg School for Communication. It brings a community-focused approach to an eclectic program of global film and television screenings. In doing so, it functions as both an informal gathering place and an intentional intervention to further embed cinema—as a modality, a space, and a method—in communications scholarship.

(2017) goes 'behind the scenes' of the news crews reporting the refugee story at the height of the European crisis. It takes the viewer to the other side of the camera and inspires us to re-evaluate our relationship with the global media and how we consume news.

Shot across nine countries from Greece to Germany, the film chronicles a journey beset by physical deprivation and danger, bureaucratic and political obstacles and thousands of miles of uncertainty. As the refugees wind their way across Europe they are accompanied by a pack of fellow travellers – reporters, camera-operators, producers and news vans. As he travels with the refugees, British director Orban Wallace turns the camera in a new direction: the world’s 24-hour news gatherers in hot pursuit of the breaking story.

Eszter Zimanyi is Research Director at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds a Ph.D. in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of Southern California and specializes in documentary studies, migration and refugee studies, and global media cultures. Her work on these topics appears in Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (JCMS), Feminist Media Studies, and Transnational Cinemas, among others.

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