Prof. Kevin B. Lee wins 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

15.07.2019

The Eurimages Lab Project Award, worth €50,000, was bestowed upon the desktop documentary Bottled Songs, written, directed and produced by Kevin B Lee and Chloé Galibert-Laîné. The doc explores the online propaganda of Islamic State. Through video letters that are received on the researchers’ screens, the documentarians reveal the role of mainstream media in generating everyday states of terror.

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