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Controversy Swirls, Legal Threats Fly After Sundance Documentary ‘The Stringer’ Questions Origin of Iconic ‘Napalm Girl’ Photo
'The Stringer,' a controversial new Sundance documentary about the origins of the 'napalm girl' photo, is sparking controversy.
But “ The Stringer,” a controversial documentary that debuted at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, claims that Nick Ut, the Associated Press photographer who won a Pulitzer Prize for taking the shot outside the town of Trang Bang, wasn’t the photo’s author. Before delivering this bombshell, director Bao Nguyen and an investigative team led by Gary Knight, founder of The VII Foundation, and producer Fiona Turner, interviewed 55 people, including Nghe and a former AP photo editor named Carl Robinson, who claims he was pressured to change the credit by his boss. Knowing that the film was in production, The Associated Press commissioned its own six-month review of the origins of one of its most iconic photographs, interviewing seven witnesses who were at Trang Bang that day or who were involved in the organization’s Saigon bureau.
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