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Fri - Dec 17 -

IRAQI AUTO-DOCUMENTARY:

**Last spring, three enterprising Americans -- filmmakers Eric Manes and Martin Kunert, both former producers for MTV, and Gulf War veteran Archie Drury, a former Marine -- decided to find out [what Iraqis think about their liberation.] They distributed 150 digital video recorders to ordinary Iraqis and asked them to film anyone or anything they thought worthwhile and then pass the camera on to someone else.

From April to September, the cameras traveled from hand to hand through every region of the country. What eventually came back to the three Americans was 450 hours of raw video recorded by more than 2,000 Iraqis from all walks of life -- and not one frame of it influenced by an outside director or crew. Edited down to a taut 80 minutes, the result -- "Voices of Iraq" -- is a gripping documentary that for the first time shows Iraq as even the most skillful American journalist will never be able to show it: through the eyes and ears of Iraq’s people.**


+ Maybe they'll sell DVD's for home consumption.


:: Jeff Jacoby - Boston Globe
-- Iraq through Iraqis' eyes --
-- via "trailing wife" on Rantburg Blog --

:: Voices of Iraq ::

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