The documentary focuses on the 2007 kidnapping and murder of a 24yearold afghan who was hired by foreign journalists to help gather news stories. It was created in 2006 as a quick fix measure to help address. The death of a young afghani hired by western journalists is removed from the newspaper margins and put front and center in docu helmer ian olds unflinching fixer. A new documentary airing monday night on hbo, fixer. The taking of ajmal naqshbandi, tells the story of one of these locals in afghanistan. Naqshbandi was one of afghanistans best fixers someone hired by foreign journalists to facilitate, translate, and gain access for their stories. Taliban fighters beheaded reporter ajmal naqshbandi in the garmsir district of helmand. An afghan fixer struggles in exile in sweden committee to protect. The taking of ajmal naqshbandi is as unsettling and complex as the country it traverses. Ajmal naqshbandi, an afghan who worked with visiting reporters, was kidnapped and. The taking of ajmal naqshbandi is a documentary by ian olds that shows the kidnapping of italian journalist daniele mastrogiacomo and interpreter ajmal naqshbandi and the events leading to the release of the former and the murder of the latter by the taliban. The taking of ajmal naqshbandi is a featurelength documentary that follows the relationship between an afghan interpreter and his client, american journalist christian parenti. Olds won best new documentary filmmaker 2009 at the tribeca film festival for the film. The taking of ajmal naqshbandi 2009 starring christian parenti and ajmal naqshbandi on dvd and bluray.
Focuses on the 2007 kidnapping and murder of a 24yearold afghan who was. Taking of ajmal naqshbandii know they would find me and kill me. Fixer is a documentary film that reveals and also scrutinizes the limits of what constitutes something real. Mastrogiacomo reported on events such as police operation mani pulite, the marta russo murder and the priebke. This intimate portrait of two colleagues at work shifts dramatically when ajmal is kidnapped along with an italian reporter.
Ian olds, ian olds, ian olds, christian parenti, gabe maxson, ian olds, nancy roth. The taking of ajmal naqshbandi instruktor ian olds. It tells the story of ajmal, a young afghan journalist, translator and coordinator working for american journalist christian parenti. In 2007, the taliban kidnapped 24yearold ajmal naqshbandi and an italian journalist. Afghanistan was reported by deutsche presse agentur as saying that he had. Ajmal naqshbandi, an afghan who worked with visiting reporters, was kidnapped and killed by the taliban in 2007. The taking of ajmal naqshbandi is a documentary by ian olds that shows the kidnapping of italian journalist daniele mastrogiacomo and interpreter ajmal. Part of the hbo documentary films series 09, mondays at 9pm. Ajmal and i began working together as fixersa fixer is somebody who.