Escaping Eritrea | |
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Directed by | Evan Williams |
Music by | Nicholas A. Phillips |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Producer | Evan Williams |
Cinematography | Real footage |
Editors | Deb Holland Bradley Manning |
Running time | 53 minutes |
Production companies |
PBS Channel 4 |
Original release | |
Release | 4 May 2021 |
Escaping Eritrea is a 2021 English documentary episode produced and directed by Evan Williams. [1] The co-producers are Daffodil Altan, Priyanka Boghani, Daniel Edge, Max Green, Erika Howard, Michelle Mizner and Evan Williams. The real footage was taken by Michael, who was also a refugee from Eritrea who moved to Europe. He put the camera in a jacket pocket with a hole and began filming what was going on around him. [2] [3]
The documentary based on the refugee crisis between 2015 and 2016 occurred across the Mediterranean where large groups coming across into Europe from Eritrea. [4] It took five years for the investigations and some secretly documented footage inside a prison also included in the documentary. [5] It made its television premier on 4 May 2021 on PBS through Frontline in United States and later telecast in Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. [6] [7]
2021 Peabody Award Winner