War Tapes Wins at Tribecca!

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Carla pointed me to Most Certainly Not which had the news that the War Tapes won the Best International Documentary at the Tribecca Film Festival.

Here's the Reuter's article:

War films take top honors at Tribeca Festival in NY
Reuters

NEW YORK - A documentary about the Iraq war and a film about the lasting impact on soldiers' lives of a conflict more than 20 years ago won the top awards at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York on Saturday.

War and global politics were the theme of many of the award-winning films at the festival which returned this year to its somber roots in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.

"War Tapes," a documentary filmed by National Guard soldiers in Iraq, won the best documentary award, while best narrative feature went to "Blessed by Fire," an Argentine film about the 1982 war with Britain over the Falkland Islands, or "Las Malvinas" as they are called in Spanish.

Now in its fifth year, the festival was founded by Robert de Niro shortly after the September 11 attacks as a way to help revitalize the Tribeca area around the World Trade Center.

"We're a festival that our roots started because of an act of war, we tend to attract pictures that are serious, that tend to have these themes," festival director Jane Rosenthal told Reuters after the awards were presented.

The festival opened this year with "United 93," a dramatization of the events on one of the hijacked planes, and many of the 274 films and shorts focused on political issues.

"The work that film makers around the world are doing are stories that are sometimes not being told by the media," Rosenthal said. "These are difficult stories to tell."

CANDID AND INSTANTANEOUS

"War Tapes" was directed by Deborah Scranton who gave digital cameras to five U.S. soldiers to film their one-year deployments in Iraq. Edited from 800 hours of film, it is a candid and instantaneous inside look at what it means to fight a war from a soldier's point of view...

A huge CONGRATULATIONS!!! goes to Deborah Scranton and the film makers, Soldiers Mike Moriarty, Stephen Pink, and Zach Bazzi, and everyone involved with the film.

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War Tapes Wins at Tribecca!

Carla pointed me to Most Certainly Not which had the news that the War Tapes won the Best International Documentary at the Tribecca Film Festival.

Here's the Reuter's article:

War films take top honors at Tribeca Festival in NY
Reuters

NEW YORK - A documentary about the Iraq war and a film about the lasting impact on soldiers' lives of a conflict more than 20 years ago won the top awards at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York on Saturday.

War and global politics were the theme of many of the award-winning films at the festival which returned this year to its somber roots in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.

"War Tapes," a documentary filmed by National Guard soldiers in Iraq, won the best documentary award, while best narrative feature went to "Blessed by Fire," an Argentine film about the 1982 war with Britain over the Falkland Islands, or "Las Malvinas" as they are called in Spanish.

Now in its fifth year, the festival was founded by Robert de Niro shortly after the September 11 attacks as a way to help revitalize the Tribeca area around the World Trade Center.

"We're a festival that our roots started because of an act of war, we tend to attract pictures that are serious, that tend to have these themes," festival director Jane Rosenthal told Reuters after the awards were presented.

The festival opened this year with "United 93," a dramatization of the events on one of the hijacked planes, and many of the 274 films and shorts focused on political issues.

"The work that film makers around the world are doing are stories that are sometimes not being told by the media," Rosenthal said. "These are difficult stories to tell."

CANDID AND INSTANTANEOUS

"War Tapes" was directed by Deborah Scranton who gave digital cameras to five U.S. soldiers to film their one-year deployments in Iraq. Edited from 800 hours of film, it is a candid and instantaneous inside look at what it means to fight a war from a soldier's point of view...

A huge CONGRATULATIONS!!! goes to Deborah Scranton and the film makers, Soldiers Mike Moriarty, Stephen Pink, and Zach Bazzi, and everyone involved with the film.

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