5:00 pm: Screening of Restrepo, an Academy Award nominated documentary about a platoon of U.S. soldiers fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley. Based on reporting for Vanity Fair and winner of the Grand Jury Prize for the best documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
6:30 pm: Discussion with filmmakers Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington. Junger is a journalist and author of the books The Perfect Storm and War, based on his reporting from Afghanistan. Hetherington is an award-winning photographer and author of Long Story Bit by Bit: Liberia Retold. Moderated by Paul Elie, senior editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Co-sponsored with Columbia Journalism school as part of the Delacorte Lectures on Magazine Journalism; Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma; Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies; and Columbia-SIPA Veterans Association.