Canadian
"Congo - A Road To Nowhere?"
Shot: April 1999
Self funded

Judges Quote
"She did it solo, she was self-funded, there was quality camerawork which was sustained throughout. Most people would be deterred. She got out there and came back with the goods."

Last March the rebel force was advancing into Katanga province while imploding politically. This was a story that Elizabeth Jones desperately wanted to do. She waited three weeks at Goma airport to be squeezed onto a military aircraft heading for the frontline, being turned back on arrival because the rebels had not been told she was coming. After nearly being shot down when the rebels failed to identify the aircraft she was on, Elizabeth finally made it to the southern front only to be told that she would have to walk through the bush for two days to reach the fighting - which, of course, she did.

Originally a reporter for NEWSWEEK, Elizabeth Jones became a freelance producer, reporter and cameraperson for BBC and CBC, based in Nairobi then Zaire/Congo. Her major feature for BBC Newsnight in the wake of the Rwandan genocide won her a nomination as a finalist in the 1995 Rory Peck Award. Since then, as a freelance documentary producer, reporter and cameraperson, Jones has worked for all the major broadcasters, including BBC, Channel 4 TV, Australian Broadcasting Corp. Most recently she has reported from India, Cuba, Zimbabwe and Congo. The piece for which she is nominated appeared in a half-hour version on BBC's "Simpson's World".

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