This harrowing war film follows American soldiers on a 15-month deployment in the remote Korengal Valley in eastern Afghanistan. In an unrelentingly harsh landscape, the unit digs in, takes enemy fire, and returns it, every day. Not everyone makes it out alive. Scenes of the chaos of combat are interspersed with post-deployment interviews, and both are devastating. In the Korengal there is no backup, and when the soldiers leave the relative safety of their outpost to meet and talk with the local inhabitants, people who could be Taliban, their vulnerability is palpable. In this era of embedded journalists, filmmakers Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington are able to depict the reality and horror of war with an immediacy unimaginable in wars past.
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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