Rory Peck Awards finalists revealed

The Rory Peck Trust, whose Rory Peck Awards recognize the work of freelance cameraman and camerawomen in international news and current affairs, have announced the nine finalists up for the 2010 Rory Peck Awards, sponsored by Sony Professional. The short-listed nominees all have something in common, they have all captured the face of conflict. The finalists for the features category are Hopewell Rugoho Chin'ono's A Violent Response, about Zimbabwe's post-election violence; Najibullah Quraishi's Behind Enemy Lines, a Clover Films production for Channel 4 'Dispatches' about the two weeks the filmmaker spent with Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters; and Paul Refsdal's Taliban: Behind the Masks, from Novemberfilm and Norwegian Film Institute for NRK, which gets close to a group of Taliban fighters. Refsdal is kidnapped by one member, but the commander of the group was instrumental in freeing the filmmaker. The finalists for the Sony Professional impact award are