NEWS Nanking Wins 2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Programming From Global Alliance for Preserving the History of WWII in Asia September 22, 2009

The Global Alliance for Preserving the Nanking - which was then China's capital - to History of WWII in Asia congratulates the months of aerial bombardment, and when the city producers, directors and members of the fell, the Japanese army unleashed murder and production team of the documentary Nanking for rape on a horrifying scale. In the midst of the winning the 2009 Emmy award in the Best rampage, a small group of Westerners banded Historical Programming category this week. together to establish a Safety Zone where over 200,000 Chinese found refuge. Unarmed, these The film was also nominated for Best missionaries, university professors, doctors and Documentary Film and Outstanding businessmen - including a Nazi named John Rabe Achievement in a Craft: Research. - bored witness to the events, while risking their The documentary Nanking was produced by own lives to protect civilians from slaughter. former vice chairman of American Online Ted The story is told through deeply moving Leonsis and directed by twice-Oscar-winning interviews with Chinese survivors, chilling veterans Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman. It was archival footage and photos of the events, and first released to show in the U.S. and Chinese testimonies of former Japanese soldiers. At the theaters in major cities before it was made heart of Nanking is a filmed stage reading of the available for free public viewing on Internet in Westerners' letters and diaries, featuring Woody 2008. It has won numerous awards, including the Harrelson, and Jurgen most prestigious award for journalists, the Prochnow. Through its interweave of archival Peabody Award, and the Documentary Editing images, testimonies of survivors, and readings of award at the in 2007. In first-hand accounts, the film puts the viewer on addition, Nanking was also nominated in two the streets of Nanking and brings the forgotten other categories for the Emmy Award in 2009. past to startling life. A powerful, emotional and relevant Nanking is a testament to the courage and reminder of the heartbreaking toll war takes on conviction of individuals who were determined to the innocent, Nanking tells the story of the act in the face of evil and a powerful tribute to the Japanese invasion of Nanking, China, in the early resilience of the Chinese people - a gripping days of World War II. As part of a campaign to account of light in the darkest of times. conquer all of China, the Japanese subjected SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL2007 Awards for Nanking Won Documentary Film Editing Award Hibah Sherif Frisina CASTING SOCIETY OF AMERICA2008 Charlton McMillan Nominated Artios Award Michael Schweitzer Outstanding Achievement in Casting -Low Nominated Grand Jury Prize Documentary Budget Feature - Drama/Comedy Bill Guttentag Mary Vernieu Dan Sturman Venus Kanani WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICAA 2008 HEART LAND FILM FESTIVAL2007 Nominated Documentary Screenplay Award Won Crystal Heart Award Documentary Bill Guttentag (screenplay/story) HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM Dan Sturman (screenplay/story) FESTIVAL 2007 Won Humanitarian Award Elizabeth Bentley (screenplay (Documentary) Bill Guttentag Dan Sturman NEWS & DOCUMENTARY 2009 Won Emmy Outstanding Historical Programming - Long Form Bill Guttentag (producer/director) Michael Jacobs (producer) Ted Leonsis (producer) Violet Du Feng (co-producer) Dan Sturman (director) Nominated Emmy Best Documentary Bill Guttentag (producer/ director) Michael Jacobs (producer) Ted Leonsis (producer) Violet Du Feng (co-producer) Dan Sturman (director) Nominated Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research Marina Brodskaya Violet Du Feng Joann Jacobs Zachary Leonsis Dylan Nelson Wan-shun Shih Katie Strand Izumi Tanaka Makiko Wakai PEABODY AWARDS 2009 Won Peabody Award