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About Duncan Woodside

Duncan Woodside is a freelance journalist with a keen interest in the Great Lakes region of Africa. His work has appeared in the Christian Science Monitor.

Articles by Duncan Woodside

Thursday 6th April

Shooting Dogs: Rwanda's genocide through European eyes

Duncan Woodside, 6 April 2006
In trying to bring the complex subject of Rwanda's 1994 genocide to western audiences, does the film Shooting Dogs stray too far from the Rwandan experience? Duncan Woodside defends the filmmakers.

A film that seeks to condense and convey something as complex and recent as Rwanda's 1994 genocide, and to reconcile a part-fictionalisation of real events with a documentary style "matter-of-fact" tone, is sure to invite controversy.

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