Biopic Tribute To Slain War Reporter Marie Colvin As Journalism Comes 'under Attack'

A biopic of war correspondent Marie Colvin, who died in Syria in 2012, is a celebration of journalism as it increasingly comes "under attack", according to the film-makers.

London, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 22nd Oct, 2018 ) :A biopic of war correspondent Marie Colvin, who died in Syria in 2012, is a celebration of journalism as it increasingly comes "under attack", according to the film-makers.

"A Private War", released in US cinemas next month, chronicles the harrowing career of Colvin -- played by "Gone Girl" star Rosamund Pike -- who was an award-winning journalist for Britain's The Sunday Times.

The feature film debut of director Matthew Heineman -- an Oscar nominee in 2016 for his documentary "Cartel Land" -- shows the reporter's struggles to cope with the impact of reporting from the world's conflict zones.

For Heineman, whose mother was a journalist, it is a "homage" to both Colvin and an increasingly besieged profession.

"It's so important right now in this world of fake news and soundbites, where journalists are under attack, to celebrate journalism and to celebrate people like Marie," he told AFP at a London Film Festival screening Saturday.

Actor Jamie Dornan -- of the "Fifty Shades" franchise -- who plays freelance photographer and longtime Colvin colleague Paul Conroy, said the work felt "timely".

"This is a film about telling the truth," he told AFP on the red carpet. "Anything that can try to show true journalism in its finest light -- the people who will go to these places to risk everything to tell us the truth -- that's a good thing."