THE WORLD IS WATCHING 58 minutes

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THE WORLD IS WATCHING is a political film about
news gathering and newsmaking, one of the key moral issues of the electronic age.

Who decides what's news? How do they decide? How much of what we see and read is fact Fiction? And what
of the men and women in the field; are foreign correspondents allowed to tell all that they see, or are
they just employees, mouth-pieces fro an invisible
editorial line?

THE WORLD IS WATCHING examines these issues by
focusing on several journalist working in Nicaragua during the negotiations surrounding the Arias Peace Plan in November 1987.

The filmmakers won unprecedented access to film inside ABC-TV News--following a news crew on the ground in Nicaragua, while simultaneously documenting the editorial process in the ABC newsroom in New York City.

The film features ABC TV's Peter Jennings and John Quiones; Newsweek photographer Bill Gentile; The Boston Globe's Randolph Ryan; Edith Coron, reporter for the Paris newspaper, Liberation and Jon Snow, correspondent for Britain's ITN TV News.

"At last we have a film that is unique in its ability to dissect the news industry. A brilliant piece of work, documentary-making of the highest order."

George Black, Foreign Editor of the Nation

GENIE, BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY FILM: Academy of Canadian Cinema & TV '89
GOLD HUGO, BEST SOCIAL/POLITICAL DOCUMENTARY: Chicago Film Festival '88
ECUMENICAL PRIZE / PUBLIC JURY PRIZE: NYON FILM FESTIVAL, Switzerland '88
HONOURABLE MENTION, PEACE PRIZE COMMITTEE: Berlin Film Festival '89
BRONZE APPLE AWARD, U.S. EDUCATIONAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL, '90
BLUE RIBBON, AMERICAN FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL, 1989
SPECIAL AWARD, MELBOURNE FILM FESTIVAL, 1989

INVITATIONAL SCREENINGS:

TORONTO FESTIVAL OF FESTIVALS, 1988
SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, 1989
BANFF TELEVISION FESTIVAL, 1989
34TH CORK FILM FESTIVAL (IRELAND), 1989
INPUT CONFERENCE OF PUBLIC TELEVISION, SWEDEN, 1990