Joshua Oppenheimer
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About
Born 1974, Texas, USA. Joshua Oppenheimer has worked for over a decade with militias, death squads and their victims to explore the relationship between political violence and the public imagination. Educated at Harvard and Central St Martins, London, his award-winning films include The Globalization Tapes (2003, co-directed with Christine Cynn), The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase (1998, Gold Hugo, Chicago), These Places We’ve Learned to Call Home (1996, Gold Spire, San Francisco) and numerous shorts. Oppenheimer is Senior Researcher on the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Genocide and Genre project and has published widely on these themes. Director and co-producer of The Act of Killing, 2012.
Life Is Sacred
(2013 Spotlighting Women Documentary Award)
The Colombian politicians Antanas Mockus and Katherin Miranda struggle to reinvent an honest political culture. They’ve become Colombia’s leading opposition. They fight with clowns, pencils and their bare asses. But can they win when votes are bought, defrauded and stolen? Can they change the rules of the game? (previously titled Democrazy)