The Guardian | Get Away from the Target | Guardian Documentaries @theGuardian | Uploaded October 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
'Get away from the target' has been nominated for two News and Documentary Emmy Awards: Best News Coverage (Longform) and Outstanding Crime & Justice Coverage. A Guardian Seascape film, it follows an overcrowded ship with asylum seekers that leaves Libya bound for Europe – triggering a high-stakes showdown between a Doctors Without Borders vessel wanting to escort it to safety and the Libyan Coast Guard fighting to turn it back. As the Libyans issue armed threats, tension grows below deck, revealing an inside view of the desperate hope that is the deadly race for Europe.
'Get away from the target' has been nominated for two News and Documentary Emmy Awards: Best News Coverage (Longform) and Outstanding Crime & Justice Coverage. A Guardian Seascape film, it follows an overcrowded ship with asylum seekers that leaves Libya bound for Europe – triggering a high-stakes showdown between a Doctors Without Borders vessel wanting to escort it to safety and the Libyan Coast Guard fighting to turn it back. As the Libyans issue armed threats, tension grows below deck, revealing an inside view of the desperate hope that is the deadly race for Europe.
