In June 2001, at the Alice Tully Hall of the Lincoln Centre in New York, he received the Human Rights Watch Nestor Almendros Award for courage and commitment in human rights filmmaking. Presenting the award to the filmmaker was venerable U.S. director Arthur Penn.
[Indiewire: How did you come to the decision to shoot combat?] You don't have time to think: "Let's go to the frontline or let's stay here and be safe." Once we decided to go, something happened, the adrenaline kicked in. Who knows what we were feeling. We went, we shot, we came home and then we looked at the footage.
