Best TV interpretation or documentary оп international affairs
AWARD YEAR: 2006
AWARD NAME: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2006
RECIPIENTS: Ric Esther Bienstock Felix Golubev Simcha Jacobovici David Fanning Ken Dornstein
AFFILIATION: Associated Producers for PBS — Frontline
HONORED WORK: “Sex Slaves”
“Sex Slaves” represents everything a winner should have: strong dramatic story, riveting characters, amazing access, good journalism, and professional execution. This portrait of modern day slavery is made possible by the most compelling use of undercover cameras in recent memory. The international scourge of human trafficking is shown from all sides the women, their families, the middlemen (who sometimes were women) and the traffickers themselves. The disappearance of Katia and her husband Viorel’s desperate search to trace and rescue her from Turkey is the stuff of movie scripts. The fact that Katia’s kidnapper, Vlad, agrees to talk about and justify his crime is a coup for the filmmakers that serves to highlight the enormous difficulty of stamping out this ancient but still thriving crime against humanity. Bravo to the filmmakers for their first-rate reporting and forceful storytelling worthy of the name Murrow.
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