Our award winning film - The Act of Killing - to be broadcasted on British TV, on Sky Atlantic, Sat. 16.11.2013,  after a four months run in UK cinemas.

THE ACT OF KILLING   is a feature length documentary directed by DocWest Senior Research Fellow Joshua Oppenheimer,  produced by a team which includes DocWest Director  Prof.  Joram ten Brink and  Signe Byrge Sorensen (Final Cut for Real, Denmark), and executive produced by a team which includes Errol Morris, Werner Herzog, Andre Singer and  Joram ten Brink.
The project was funded by a combination of research money (AHRC Research Award) and  industry and , with support from the University of Westminster’s New Directions Fund.
The Act of Killing‘s subjects are the Indonesian paramilitary leader Anwar Congo and his band of dedicated followers. In the 1960s, Anwar and his friends spent their lives at the movies, where they controlled a black market in tickets, while using the cinema as a base of operations for more serious crimes. When the government of President Sukarno was overthrown by the military in 1965, the army recruited them to form death squads, as they had a proven capacity for violence and they hated the communists for boycotting American films – the most popular – and profitable – in the cinemas. Anwar and his friends were devoted fans of James Dean, John Wayne, and Victor Mature. They explicitly fashioned themselves and their methods of murder after their Hollywood idols. In this chilling, almost surreal documentary, the unrepentant former members of Indonesian death squads are challenged to re-enact some of their many murders in the style of the American movies they love.

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