‘Armed Solely With a Digital camera: Life & Demise of Brent Renaud’ Doc Trailer
by Alex Billington
October 6, 2025
Supply: YouTube
“The way in which you maintain that digital camera, you are doing it out of your coronary heart.” HBO Max has revealed the official trailer for a documentary movie titled Armed Solely With a Digital camera: Life & Demise of Brent Renaud, made by his brother Craig Renaud. This primary premiered on the 2025 SXSW Movie Pageant earlier this yr – the place it received the Viewers Award for Greatest Documentary. It’s going to be streaming on HBO Max later this October. Armed Solely With a Digital camera is a robust tribute to a struggle photojournalist who risked the whole lot on the entrance traces. On March thirteenth, 2022, doc filmmaker Brent Renaud was killed by Russian troopers – the primary American journalist to die whereas reporting on the struggle in Ukraine. His youthful brother & collaborator, Craig Renaud, recovered Brent’s physique and his closing recordings from Ukraine and introduced them again house to Arkansas. As Brent’s journey to his closing resting place unfolds, the doc movie chronicles the years he and his brother spent protecting among the world’s most harmful conflicts as photojournalists. Brent’s journey house additionally serves as a window into what drove him as a journalist, and the way he seen the world by means of his lens. This movie is devoted to Brent and all journalists who use cameras to battle for peace. They’re extra necessary than ever.
Trailer for Renaud’s doc Armed Solely With a Digital camera: Life & Demise of Brent Renaud, through YouTube:
The vérité movie consists of harrowing footage of the brothers’ reporting from across the globe, together with time embedded with the Arkansas Nationwide Guard in Iraq, the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the struggle in Somalia, immigrants’ journeying from Honduras to america, and Brent’s reportage upon arriving in Ukraine. Regardless of bearing witness to devastating loss & struggling, he fearlessly coated tales from the entrance traces, whereas empathically capturing the affect on harmless individuals. Unflinching in its depiction of loss of life, loss, and the toll of struggle, the movie is Brent’s final testomony to the vital worth of wartime reporting & tribute to journalists offering on-the-ground, life-threatening protection of world occasions. As journalism is changing into probably the most harmful professions, Armed Solely With a Digital camera is devoted to Brent & all devoted journalists who use their cameras to work for reality & understanding.
Armed Solely With a Digital camera: Life & Demise of Brent Renaud is directed by the brothers Craig Renaud & Brent Renaud (posthumously) as a “Renaud Brothers Movie”. They’re additionally co-directors of the movies Warrior Champions, Shelter, Meth Storm, and different TV collection and lots of doc initiatives beforehand. Produced by Juan Arredondo, Craig Renaud & Brent Renaud; in affiliation with DCTV. This initially premiered on the 2025 SXSW Movie Pageant earlier this yr. HBO Docs will launch Armed Solely With a Digital camera: Life & Demise of Brent Renaud streaming on HBO Max beginning on October twenty first, 2025 this fall. Anybody wish to watch it?
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