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Journalist nominated for international award
MISA-Zimbabwe
October 08, 2010

Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin'ono has been nominated for a prestigious Rory Peck award honouring freelance camerawork in news or current affairs.

Chin'ono's film, A violent response, which depicts Zimbabwe's violent land reform programme, was selected a finalist together with three other films on 29 September 2010 by a panel of news professionals, both executive and freelance. The nominees will be travelling to London in November for the awards ceremony.

A Violent Response was first screened on Kenya's K24 television channel.

In 2008, Chin'ono, recently a Nieman fellow at Havard University, was awarded the CNN Multi -Choice African Journalist of the year award. A violent response will be his second break after his first film, Pain in My Heart that portrayed Zimbabwe's HIV/Aids pandemic.

The Rory Peck award honours freelance camerawork for an in-depth piece which looks beyond the immediacy of a news story.

The Rory Peck Trust supports freelance news gatherers and their families worldwide in times of need and promotes their welfare and safety.

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