The unique collaboration between Mexican human-rights lawyer, Hernández, and award-winning UK / Australian documentary film director, Geoffrey Smith, brings us a galvanizing story on the dysfunctional legal system in Mexico and one young man’s adventure of realizing justice in a place where that’s almost impossible to come by. This film will no doubt become a vehicle for change since Hernández and Smith have crafted a powerful indictment (and a thrilling drama) of a governmental system run amok. Through their main character, Antonio (Toño) Zúniga Rodriguez, serving a 20-year sentence for murder, Presumed Guilty shows how Toño’s strength and creativity (helped by some expert coaching by one of Mexico’s most successful criminal lawyers) help him survive three years of wrongful imprisonment
In his film company dokumentar.no Lie has since 2008 been working as a film director, cinematographer and producer for documentaries. He works with the new Canon EOS 5D/7D with HD film, and edits in Apple's Final cut.
With Haiti mon Amour (Kjære Haiti, hva nå?) Lie went to Port-au-Prince after the earthqake with Ole Paus and others. We followed the money collected by the norwegian consert Dugnad for Haiti and NRK, and then given to Red Cross, Church Aid and UNICEF. It is edited as a low budget film essay, an montage of images. (se video below)
He has since 2007 worked on a documentary portrait – The Seduced Human – Jørgten Leth and Haiti on the danish renowned filmmaker Jørgen Leth (2011). This one-hour documentary is financed so far by the Norwegian Film Institute with 720 000 kroner – and will be released in 2011. (se video below)
Lie is also editor-in-chief for DOX, the leading European quarterly magazine for documentary films, published by the European Documentary Network. See PDFs of the last magaines below.
Lie has been the editor-in-chief and publisher for Morgenbladet between 1993-2003, and has been editor-in-chief/publisher of the Nordic edition of the monthly newspaper Le Monde diplomatique between 2003-08, where he now is still the publisher and regulary film critic.
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