'Admirable' filmmakers in memory

April 21, 2011 last updated at 15:19 pm Janus Metz (R) Hetherington (l) was a "intelligent guy with huge integrity", Tim Hetherington, the British photographer says killed, while talking about the conflict in Libya, was an Oscar nominated film about us soldiers Co-Director of Restrepo,, in Afghanistan.Danish Director Janus Metz, whose own film Armadillo Danish soldiers in southern of Afghanistan, followed shares his memories of Hetherington and experience of filmmaking in a war zone.

My first reaction on hearing of Tim's death was a shock.

I met Tim last spring and we had a long talk about our respective movies. I took a great liking to him and we should to make when I was back in New York.

I was shocked to hear the news, but I thought, "Wow, I would". When you try report from a war zone you put yourself in situations where your life is in danger.

Tim made his career to a war reporter. I think he saw it as a mission to relate stories and pictures from these places for everyone at home.

Armadillo was a group of Danish soldiers in Afghanistan in the year 2009

At puts me in danger, I did only Armadillo and I have to do enough, the certainly. I have no need to go back.

I had a strong sense of Afghanistan, we were happy to pull it off and I felt like my luck retest.

But it is obviously a pull in the direction of the excitement and intensity was doing before we went. The feeling of being alive and do something important at the same time is quite strong, if you are working in war zones.

I think my family and girlfriend know me enough, that it really sense not to try to stop me. If I have my head on something I do it.

I traveled many dangerous places and it makes them really nervous every time.

I think the toll it takes on the people to home is very large. You realize what means not always there for those who care for you; in this sense, it can be slightly selfish.

My experience was personally that I disable you can to leave my back. If something happen me, should then at least would be said what I wanted to tell people I look to.

The thing about the war is that violence is always very sudden. She could feel safe, but suddenly you find yourself in the middle of a firefight or bombs go off is or someone steps on a mine.

My overall experience was, things happen can type very suddenly and created a constant voltage. In the longer term, it's really nerve grinding.

You may be unhappy and are in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or you will be able directly to someone who is at the wrong time in the wrong place and be happy.

There is no guarantee of security in a war zone; either you are lucky enough to pull it off, or are you bad luck.

There are various ways to do it, but if someone like Tim, going to the front and the action observed how it out play, you just be beaten so easily as any of the soldiers.

Hetherington (R) Co-Director Restrepo with writer Sebastian Junger (l)

This is a risk that you know that brings the work to and choose the people who go in these situations that the risk.

Tim was an admirable guy in many respects, and his work was certainly admirable. But I do not believe that his death editors or journalists, filmmakers, which stops in war zones.

It is brutal, and it is a tragedy he is dead. But he was not the first to go this way and he is likely not the last.

The person I met came intelligent man with huge integrity in his work as a very warm, sympathetic.

I saw him as a potential friend, whom I never catch up with again could take after our first.

Janus Metz said entertainment to BBC reporter Neil Smith.

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