Faraway Up Close

 Reporting on some of the issues affecting countries in receipt of Irish government development aid.

Series one - Liberia, Mozambique, South Africa, Uganda, Ethiopia, Bosnia & Honduras. 

Reporter – Keelin Shanley 2005, 6 x 24′

Series two - Afghanistan, Liberia, East Timor, Moldova

Reporter – Aoife Kavanagh 2006, 4 x 24′

Series three - Lesotho, Kenya, Liberia

Presented by Liz O’Donnell 2008, 4 x 24′

Director, Kim Bartley

 Produced by Animo Television for RTE  

Faraway Up Close - The Sunday Times Culture Magazine

“Kim Bartley is a bullet dodging film-maker who doesn’t shy from bringing attention to the problems of the world. Bartley has made a career as a film-maker with a cause, whose work is underpinned by a sense of outrage and political and social injustice. Even the new series of Faraway Up Close seems driven by Bartley’s sense of purpose. Looking over her career, it is obvious that Bartley’s concept of “human interest” goes beyond soft-focus shots of starving babies.”