{"id":37952,"date":"2014-01-20T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=46498675e6e5a304a5c52aa4f6cd7c8a"},"modified":"2014-01-20T16:14:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T16:14:00","slug":"news-story-bis-funding-leads-to-academy-award-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=37952","title":{"rendered":"News story: BIS funding leads to Academy Award nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>\u2018The Act of Killing\u2019, a documentary which came about through an <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ahrc.ac.uk\/Funded-Research\/Pages\/Genocide-and-Genre-performing-mass-violence-and-its-histories---filmmaking-with-perpetrators-and-sur.aspx\"><abbr title=\"Arts and Humanities Research Council\">AHRC<\/abbr>-funded<\/a> project has been nominated for an \u2018Oscar\u2019 by the Amercian Academy of Motion Picture Arts in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>The film, part of the <abbr title=\"Arts and Humanities Research Council\">AHRC<\/abbr>-funded <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.westminster.ac.uk\/research\/research-excellence-framework\/research-impact\/westminster-impacts\/genocide-and-genre\">Genocide and Genre research project at the University of Westminster<\/a> explores the Indonesian genocide of the 1960s, telling the story of a group of former members of Indonesian death squads being challenged to revisit and re-enact their earlier crimes. <\/p>\n<p>It focuses particularly on one individual, Anwar Congo, whose initial enthusiasm for the re-enactments slowly gives way to outward expressions of unease and remorse.<\/p>\n<p>The project was supported by a large research grant from the <abbr title=\"Arts and Humanities Research Council\">AHRC<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>To mark the occasion, the <abbr title=\"Arts and Humanities Research Council\">AHRC<\/abbr> has launched a <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ahrc.ac.uk\/News-and-Events\/Watch-and-Listen\/Pages\/The-Act-of-Killing.aspx\">short film of an interview with the film\u2019s director Joshua Oppenheimer<\/a>. Speaking in the film about the many awards and nominations received by The Act of Killing, the director says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s wonderful in two ways. When a film is difficult and has been made in a fundamentally different way and actually breaks through and gets mainstream acceptance that opens a space for more adventurous, more intelligent, more experimental work. It opens a way for film-makers to stand on the shoulders of the The Act of Killing and to try new things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The awards are also a sign of the willingness of audiences to say, this is about all of us. This is not a case study of the depths of depravity that human beings are capable of on the other side of the world\u2026 This is a mirror to all human beings about the nature of impunity, about how we live with guilt, about how we create our world through storytelling.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"the-arts-and-humanities-research-council-ahrc\">The Arts and Humanities Research Council (<abbr title=\"Arts and Humanities Research Council\">AHRC<\/abbr>)<\/h3>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"Arts and Humanities Research Council\">AHRC<\/abbr> is unique in the world as a national funding agency, supporting both arts and humanities research. It funds approximately \u00a398 million each year of research among one quarter of the United Kingdom\u2019s research population. It is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, along with the other UK Research Councils. The <abbr title=\"Arts and Humanities Research Council\">AHRC<\/abbr> is governed by its Council, which is responsible for its overall strategic direction, and is incorporated by Royal Charter.<\/p>\n<p>Each year it provide some 700 research awards, 2,000 postgraduate scholarships, and numerous knowledge transfer awards.<\/p>\n<p>Recently published statistics for the UK\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/creative-industries-worth-8million-an-hour-to-uk-economy\">Creative Industries<\/a> reveal that it is now worth \u00a371.4 billion per year to the UK economy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A documentary from an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project at Westminster University has been nominated for an Oscar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37992,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37952\/revisions\/37992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}