Halderman 's work at CBS News won an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for broadcast journalism and eight Emmy Awards . He also received an Academy Award nomination for the 2006 film '' Beslan : Three Days in September '' which was narrated by Julia Roberts . The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York and aired on Showtime . The film about the Beslan school siege , which Halderman wrote , directed and produced , combined guerilla footage and interviews with family members , soldiers , local politicians , school officials , and survivors to describe the hostage-taking and massacre of hundreds of people at a children 's school by Chechen rebels in North Ossetia , Russia
Beslan school siege
Beslan school siege
Joe Halderman