SA filmmaker wins green journalist award

Last month in Hollywood, US, independent filmmaker Bart Smithers walked away with the Brigitte Bardot award for best film or television production in the international category of the Genesis awards for environmental awareness journalism and media creation. The award-winning film “Hunters Become Hunted”, which was flighted on SABC 2’s 50/50, documents the attempts of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society to halt the Japanese whaling fleet from fishing illegally in the Antarctic during its 2005/6 campaign.