"Death In Gaza" is a distressing documentary which portrays the violent horrors of the Israeli conflict and the resulting death of it's director/cameraman James Miller. According to me, this documentary is the most powerful one ever made, not only because a man gave up his life to make this documentary, but also the fact that it showcases the lifestyle of one of the cruelest and weapon filled lands about which only few of us are aware. If you watch this documentary, at least once, you would realize how the word 'luck' plays a major role in all of our lives.
You get to watch the lives of Israeli children and the interview of a little girl whose parents and five brothers were killed and buried somewhere unknown. Her innocent smile would haunt the viewers for days. We have everything, a decent job, good friends, safe place to call home and a caring family. But seeing really small children getting trained with complicated machine guns introduce us to a world of labyrinth.
Throughout the film, distant cries and gun shots were heard. Someone is always getting murdered brutally, someone is always pleading for their life, little children create riots by throwing small stones at the marching tanks and topping all of this a single shot on a night filled with confusion and danger kills James Miller.
Miller always fought for causes. He was always keen on shedding light to social issues and problems which are faced by many underprivileged people and still not solved or not even known to many of us. His documentary "Children of the Secret State " is about the homeless North Korean orphans.
The film brought out the issue well in public. "Children of the Secret State" gave many orphans, a place to call home and people to call family. Miller always worked with Saira Shah, even in "Death In Gaza", with whom he founded and operated an independent production company called Frostbite Productions in 2001.
James Miller is the face of an ideal journalist. Even though he was a journalist turned filmmaker and cameraman, all of his movies, if one closely observes, are from a journalist's point of view. He took up a journalist's job to bring out the brutal social problems and he strove hard to find solutions. If you are a journalist, then be proud. If you have a passion to become a journalist, never deviate from your path or if you just love journalism, keep doing that, because journalism is the only profession where only passion matters and nothing else. It is for sure that Miller would be standing behind the success of every journalist who strive hard to make a difference in this society.
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