From 1975 to 1979, almost two million people were brutally tortured and executed in the killing fields of Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge regime. Senior investigative reporter Thet Sambath, who lost his parents and brother to the massacre, set out to discover why so many had to die. For ten years, he investigated the haunting story, persuading men who actually carried out the killings to admit to their acts on camera—one man even demonstrates how he slit his victims’ throats—never revealing his own connection to the tragedy. Sambath’s greatest coup, however, was to get Pol Pot’s second-in-command, Nuon Che, also known as Brother Number Two, to break his 30-year silence and admit to issuing the orders to kill. With its shocking testimony, revealed here for the first time, Enemies of the People represents an individual’s courageous attempt to come to terms with the darkest moment in his country’s history. SM
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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