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The War Tapes
By John
This Friday, the soldier-doc The War Tapes premiers at the Tribeca Film Festival. Charlie and I were lucky enough to speak with Director Deborah Scranton last week at the Milblogging Conference. Deborah laid out her vision for an experiment in "living journalism," and on creating the first ever war film shot exclusively by soldiers in theater. I remember her calling it a "modern day Odyessy." Betcha Homer would be jealous...
After chatting with Deborah I was interested. After watching the trailer I was sold.
For emphasis, check out this clip from The War Tapes, titled Troops vs. the Donkey.
My heart was pounding after watching the trailer, I can't wait for this flick to make it out West.
Blackfive saw it, came away impressed.
HuffPo has good things to say (for once!)
Greyhawk says "this I gotta see."
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Hi John and Charlie - I'm on the way to NYC to see The War Tapes. Looking forward to it....
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Cool. Hope it captures the real without being slanted towards an antiwar agenda. FYI, it would not be the first film shot by soldiers/troops. See Victory At Sea, an absolute masterpiece shot entirely by Combat Cameramen. All that kind of footage is being captured daily and can be obtained by requesting it from Joint Combat Camera in Washington.