the bang bang club snapshots from a hidden war

Matloff worked with Marinovich and knew Silva, as she was a member of the Johannesburg press corps in the early 1990s. After a fun day taking pictures of black people massacring each other, the lads go back to the white suburbs and party - the implication being that the bloodshed is a game to them.' Instead, Silver plays to the Hollywood stereotype of journalists as heartless outsiders. This doesn't particularly come through in the film.

Matloff wrote: 'But the reporters and photographers stationed in South Africa at the time were also compassionate human beings who exposed themselves to danger because they wanted to record history. Judith Matloff, a veteran foreign correspondent and contributing editor at Columbia Journalism Review said in her review of the film that it is 'the latest Hollywood production to get the role of the conflict correspondent wrong'. According to The Numbers, the film was only shown in nine theatres in the US where it earned $124,791. It was released theatrically in the United States on 22 April 2011. Tribeca Film acquired American distribution rights. Entertainment One has distribution rights for Canada. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The film tells the story of four young men and the extremes they went to in order to capture their pictures in the days prior to the downfall of apartheid in South Africa. It is a film adaptation of the book The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War co-written by Greg Marinovich and João Silva who were part of the group of four photographers known as the Bang-Bang Club, the other two members being Kevin Carter and Ken Oosterbroek. They portray the lives of four photojournalists active within the townships of South Africa during the apartheid period, particularly between 19, from when Nelson Mandela was released from prison to the 1994 elections. The Bang Bang Club is a 2010 Canadian-South African biographical drama film written and directed by Steven Silver and stars Ryan Phillippe as Greg Marinovich, Malin Åkerman as Robin Comley, Taylor Kitsch as Kevin Carter, Frank Rautenbach as Ken Oosterbroek and Neels Van Jaarsveld as João Silva.

The bang bang club snapshots from a hidden war