Mostafaei: end the death penalty
Hodgson, Jonathan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7043-8396
(2012)
Mostafaei: end the death penalty.
[Film/Video]
Abstract
In September 2011 I was commissioned by Amnesty International and Guardian Films to direct a short animated documentary about juvenile executions in Iran, which would be a pivotal part of a viral internet campaign. The research for the project was based on a four hour Skype interview which I conducted with exiled Iranian human rights defence lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei. Working with writer Afarin Eghbal I produced a 5 minute script that was a distillation of the interview. The script describes firstly how Mostafaei’s childhood experience of poverty and abuse motivated him to become a human rights lawyer and secondly how he defended a young man who had been charged with murder at the age of 17 and witnessed his hanging under sharia law by the parents of his victim. I made drawn sketches based on the script which over a three week period were made into an animatic. This was followed by a 2 month animation production period. The completed project demonstrates how animation can be used as a tool to present harrowing and hard to obtain information in a palatable form to a global audience.
Item Type: | Film/Video |
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Research Areas: | A. > School of Art and Design > Visual Arts A. > School of Art and Design > Visual Arts > Electronic and Digital Arts cluster |
Item ID: | 11879 |
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Depositing User: | Users 3197 not found. |
Date Deposited: | 10 Sep 2013 08:56 |
Last Modified: | 13 Oct 2016 14:28 |
URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/11879 |
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