Last year, the international community was alarmed by the events that occurred in the wake of the tenth presidential elections in Iran and the eyes of the world’s media were all turned towards what was happening in this country. During the course of a few days – the most violent since the Islamic Revolution – more than 65 people died. The international community began to wonder what could have caused such widespread dissent and such a vehement clash with the government.
The documentary RED, WHITE & GREEN focuses on the last three weeks prior to the elections in June, 2009. The film shows fifty-eight minutes of images of the Iranian capital as it has never before been seen. Perhaps the most moving aspect of this film is the enormous sense of optimism expressed by most protagonists with regard to the upcoming elections – little could they know that many of them would experience a rude awakening.
In his film, the director conducts interviews with a number of important personalities, several of whom have since been arrested following the elections. The interviewees include journalist and opposition member Isa Saharkhiz, as well as the renowned director Jafar Panahi, whose football film OFFSIDE was screened in Competition at the Berlinale in 2006.
Production notes
In his film company dokumentar.no Lie has since 2008 been working as a film director, cinematographer and producer for documentaries. He works with the new Canon EOS 5D/7D with HD film, and edits in Apple's Final cut.
With Haiti mon Amour (Kjære Haiti, hva nå?) Lie went to Port-au-Prince after the earthqake with Ole Paus and others. We followed the money collected by the norwegian consert Dugnad for Haiti and NRK, and then given to Red Cross, Church Aid and UNICEF. It is edited as a low budget film essay, an montage of images. (se video below)
He has since 2007 worked on a documentary portrait – The Seduced Human – Jørgten Leth and Haiti on the danish renowned filmmaker Jørgen Leth (2011). This one-hour documentary is financed so far by the Norwegian Film Institute with 720 000 kroner – and will be released in 2011. (se video below)
Lie is also editor-in-chief for DOX, the leading European quarterly magazine for documentary films, published by the European Documentary Network. See PDFs of the last magaines below.
Lie has been the editor-in-chief and publisher for Morgenbladet between 1993-2003, and has been editor-in-chief/publisher of the Nordic edition of the monthly newspaper Le Monde diplomatique between 2003-08, where he now is still the publisher and regulary film critic.
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