SummaryAnna, Ole, Fred and Peter are four members of the Emergencies Team — or E-Team — the most intrepid division of a respected, international human rights group. Trained to deal with unfolding crises, the E-Team flies to hotspots all over the world as soon as allegations of human rights abuse surface. Then they get to work — gathering crucial evidenc... Read More
Directed By:Katy Chevigny, Ross Kauffman
Written By:Katy Chevigny, Ross Kauffman, David Teague
E-Team
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Oct 20, 2014
90
In this spellbinding story, filmmakers Katy Chevigny and Ross Kauffman thrust us into the red-alert lives of four E-Team members. It's a comprehensive portrayal of these people's personal and professional lives.
Oct 23, 2014
80
Although their work involves interviewing eyewitnesses and gathering photographic evidence to build a case for violations of international law, the procedural stuff tells just half of E-Team's compelling story.
Oct 23, 2014
75
Exciting, absorbing and stubbornly optimistic in the face of overwhelming devastation, E-Team will, with any luck, shed deserved light on the routine sacrifices these activists and professionals make for the sake of human values.
Oct 21, 2014
60
The emphasis on the team's daring amid mass chaos seems a bit off: This threatens to become yet another film about white Americans and Europeans telling the stories of Third World people. But the rest of the film does much to redeem that dubious trope.
Oct 21, 2014
50
A documentary that purports to chronicle the sober and urgent work of those who ferret out human-rights abuses, but instead plays like a portrait of a rather glamorous marriage.
Oct 20, 2014
50
There's edifying information in the documentary, but it's tainted by forced dramatic tactics.
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Feb 14, 2015
8
E-Team is a documentary about workers for Human Rights Watch who travel to go hands on to investigate abuses and atrocities of governments inside the countries of Syria and Libya (and in the past Bosnia) and report back to the world what they have seen. There are a number people who undertake work who we see at various stages in the process, highlighting of course the most important and potentially dangerous on-the-ground interviews and collection of data. Do not expect an in depth documentary about any of these brutal and often complex overseas crises. You see snippets about what’s going on, but it gives far from a clear picture. The point isn’t these events in themselves but how an organization may go about trying to piece together potential criminal violations within them so they can disseminate that information. On that latter basis it’s a very well done, if not perfect, documentary.
Production Company:
- Doc Society
- Big Mouth Productions
Release Date:Oct 22, 2014
Duration:1 h 28 m
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Awards
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
News & Documentary Emmy Awards
• 2 Nominations
