'Restrepo' Co-Director Dies in Libya

Sad news today. Tim Hetherington, a co-director on the compelling, Oscar-nominated documentaryRestrepo, was killed in the war-torn city of Misrata, Libya on Wednesday. The 41-year-old photojournalist was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade that wounded three other photographers, one fatally.

Hetherington’s last update onTwitterread,“In besieged Libyan city of Misrata. Indiscriminate shelling by Qaddafi forces. No sign of NATO.”

According toDeadline, Hetherington and his co-director Sebastian Junger were to be honored next week with an award from the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America for their raw, courageous Afghan War doc, which chronicles a year embedded with an American platoon in the deadly Korangal Valley.

Our condolences go out to the families of Hetherington and Chris Hondros.

Restrepois available to“Watch Instantly” on Netflix. Here is one of Hetherington’s last experimental short films, titled“Diary” and composed of footage he captured in his ten years as a war correspondent:

Diary (2010)fromTim HetheringtononVimeo.

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