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Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer (born September 23, 1974) is an American film director based in Copenhagen, Denmark. [1] [2] He is known for his Oscar-nominated films The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014), Oppenheimer was a 1997 Marshall Scholar [3] and a 2014 recipient of the MacArthur fellowship. [4]
Jul 15, 2015 · Joshua Oppenheimer: In 2003, I began working with survivors of the 1965 genocide to explore what it’s like for them to live constantly afraid that they could be attacked or killed.
Joshua Oppenheimer was born on 23 September 1974 in Texas, USA. He is a director and producer, known for The Act of Killing (2012), The End (2024) and The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase (1998).
The Act of Killing is directed by Joshua Oppenheimer, who with his crew in Medan, asks some of the gangsters to re-enact their killings. The film's first subjects, Anwar Congo and Herman Koto, used to sell black market tickets outside of a cinema.
Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer are American screenwriters who have collaborated on a number of projects from Thoughtcrimes in 2003 through an adaptation of Brian Freeman's Infinite in 2021.
Jan 17, 2014 · One of 2013’s most discussed and lauded films, Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary The Act of Killing takes a by-turns chilling, humorous, and insightful tour in the company of Indonesia’s infamous...
Jul 17, 2015 · Director Joshua Oppenheimer describes how his Oscar-nominated The Act of Killing led to a follow-up, and a sea change in Indonesian history.
Jul 17, 2015 · With profound sadness, Adi watches footage of interviews conducted by Joshua Oppenheimer with perpetrators of the 1965–66 Indonesian genocide in The Look of Silence. Courtesy of Drafthouse...
Jul 29, 2013 · Oppenheimer, who worked on The Act of Killing for nearly a decade, first set out to make a documentary about victims of the Indonesian genocide. He encountered Anwar when he was interviewing...
Jul 16, 2015 · Almost three years ago, Joshua Oppenheimer unveiled The Act of Killing, a startling documentary about the 1965-66 mass killings in Indonesia. Its audacious ploy was to encourage unrepentant...
