Amazing Azerbaijan

Amazing Azerbaijan! is a 2013 British documentary film directed by Liz Mermin and produced by Aisling Ahmed.[2][2][3][4][5]

Amazing Azerbaijan
Directed byLiz Mermin
Produced byAisling Ahmed
Release date
  • January 2013 (2013-01)[1]
Country
  • Azerbaijan
  • Germany
  • England
LanguageEnglish

Synopsis

Amazing Azerbaijan! pulls back the glittery facade that this oil-rich nation presented to the world when hosting Eurovision 2012, telling personal stories of human rights abuses to which Europe’s leaders have turned a blind eye.[1] The film looks at Azerbaijan in the run-up to the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest, which took place in Baku. It features interviews with Eurovision contestants and aspiring contestants, politicians, human rights activists, investigative journalists, and members of the public, and contrasts the image the government presents to the outside world with first-person accounts of torture, arrest, and abuse by the government.

Production

The film is directed by Liz Mermin, produced by Aisling Ahmed, edited by Herbert Hunger, and features music by James Burrell. It was broadcast across Europe during the week of Eurovision 2012. It is distributed by DR Sales Denmark [6] The film received a Bertha (now Doc Society) outreach grant,[7] at which point it was lengthened to include an interview with the 2012 Eurovision song-contest winner Loreen.[2][8]

Soundtracks

The documentary has these songs/scores—

  • And they shall rise
  • My freedom
gollark: Just get more?
gollark: Nuclear fission will certainly not work *literally forever* or even millions of years, but it doesn't have to.
gollark: If I say my reactor is made of 2 tonnes of uranium it's preloaded with, how is that better than that being supplied as fuel?
gollark: The relevant metric is scarce inputs per joule, or something.
gollark: Why? Fuel or not's basically arbitrary.

References
  1. https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2013/01/30-jan-amazing-azerbaijan-a-film-screening-and-discussion/
  2. "Amazing Azerbaijan". DR DK. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  3. "Amazing Azerbaijan!". IPGA. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  4. "Amazing Azerbaijan". IFi. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  5. "Amazing Azerbaijan". Huck. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  6. https://www.drsales.dk/programmes/amazing-azerbaijan/
  7. https://docsociety.org/films/display/amazing-azerbaijan/
  8. "Amazing Azerbaijan!". Retrieved 28 March 2015.
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