The Times and The Sunday Times: Bearing Witness

Bearing Witness is the seventh instalment in Grey London's brilliant The Unquiet Film Series, created to highlight the cultural impact of The Times and The Sunday Times newspaper publications.

This time documenting the kidnapping and return of award-winning foreign correspondent Anthony Loyd and photographer Jack Hill in May of this year, director and creative Phil Lind once again turns his vision to the project for the new piece.

Loyd and Hill were returning to Turkey from the town of Tall Rifat when their vehicle was forced to the side of the road; they were then captured and held in a warehouse.  Both were brutally beaten and Loyd was shot twice in the leg at close range before the Islamic Front, a rebel group who had provided some security for the journalists, confronted the gang and demanded their release.

The new short film is told through the eyes of Loyd and Hill themselves and explores the battle between the growing trend for citizen journalism in areas of conflict versus independent, professional reporting and the endeavour for objective coverage in increasingly hostile environments.

Click here to see Lind's previous effort for the campaign.