The real story behind Bowe Bergdahl is only beginning to unfold. While it may take weeks or months to find out exactly why and how the U.S. soldier may have left his platoon in Afghanistan in 2009 and found himself held captive by the Taliban for five years, Bergdahl’s narrative has renewed long seething debates about America’s foreign entanglements in the Middle East. Was Bergdahl a deserter or hero, a traitor or a Pow? And ultimately, was his reason for being in Afghanistan justified or, to use the military acronym, Fubar (fucked-up beyond all recognition)? American documentary cinema has long embraced this debate, with U.S. soldiers like Bergdahl emerging as some of the most powerful characters in this ongoing national drama. Think of Scott Camil, the traumatized Vietnam vet, in 1972’s Winter Soldier, who testified to the horrifying brutalization and murder of innocent Vietnamese civilians by U.
- 6/18/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Amy Smart and Patrick Wilson are taking off for Life in Flight, an indie drama written by New York-based filmmaker and entrepreneur Tracey Hecht, who also is making her feature directorial debut. Plum Pictures is producing.
Lynn Collins and Fred Weller also have been cast.
The story follows an architect/builder (Wilson) with the perfect wife (Smart) and an adorable son. But an unexpected meeting with an urban designer (Collins) reveals the weak foundation upon which his life is built and forces him to reassess his life.
The film will shoot next month in Manhattan. Galt Niderhoffer, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Celine Rattray and Pam Hirsh will produce. Private equity is backing the production.
Plum's credits include documentary The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends, which is on the Oscar shortlist, and Lonesome Jim, directed by Steve Buscemi and starring Casey Affleck and Liv Tyler.
Smart recently starred on the crime series Smith and appeared opposite Jason Statham in Crank. She also starred in Just Friends. Smart is repped by Endeavor, Untitled and attorney Robert Offer.
Lynn Collins and Fred Weller also have been cast.
The story follows an architect/builder (Wilson) with the perfect wife (Smart) and an adorable son. But an unexpected meeting with an urban designer (Collins) reveals the weak foundation upon which his life is built and forces him to reassess his life.
The film will shoot next month in Manhattan. Galt Niderhoffer, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Celine Rattray and Pam Hirsh will produce. Private equity is backing the production.
Plum's credits include documentary The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends, which is on the Oscar shortlist, and Lonesome Jim, directed by Steve Buscemi and starring Casey Affleck and Liv Tyler.
Smart recently starred on the crime series Smith and appeared opposite Jason Statham in Crank. She also starred in Just Friends. Smart is repped by Endeavor, Untitled and attorney Robert Offer.
- 11/29/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has winnowed the list of feature length documentaries competing in the 79th Annual Academy Awards down to a short list of fifteen films. The titles range from Amy Berg's Deliver Us From Evil, a portrait of a pedophile priest to Davis Guggenheim's warning about global warming An Inconvenient Truth to the Dixie Chicks documentary Shut Up & Sing, directed by Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck.
The complete list of films includes: Blindsight, Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?, Deliver Us From Evil, The Ground Truth, An Inconvenient Truth, Iraq in Fragments, Jesus Camp, Jonestown: The Life and Death of People's Temple, My Country, My Country, Shut Up & Sing, Sisters in Law, Storm of Emotions, The Trials of Darryl Hunt, An Unreasonable Man, and The War Tapes.
The complete list of films includes: Blindsight, Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?, Deliver Us From Evil, The Ground Truth, An Inconvenient Truth, Iraq in Fragments, Jesus Camp, Jonestown: The Life and Death of People's Temple, My Country, My Country, Shut Up & Sing, Sisters in Law, Storm of Emotions, The Trials of Darryl Hunt, An Unreasonable Man, and The War Tapes.
- 11/15/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Quick Links > God Grew Tired of Us > Newmarket Films > National Geographic World Films > Official Site I had thought that when President Bob Berney sold Newmarket films and merged HBO Films and Fine Line features to form Picturehouse that it was R.I.P for the company that distributed The Passion of Christ, Memento and Whale Rider. Apparently, Newmarket are still very much in the distribution game and today Variety reports that National Geographic World Films has teamd up with them in a deal to distribute this power doc. While it would be silly to expect a March of the Penguins-like returns, nonetheless the company that we all know best as the yellow covered nature magazine has less to do with paper and more to do with celluloid. Winner of this year's Sundance grand jury prize and audience award, Christopher Quinn and Tommy Walker’s God Grew Tired of Us
- 9/8/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
- In the Pipeline presents: Patricia Foulkrod's The Ground Truth The largest benefit for audiences in the recent rise of the documentary has been the increasing release of alternative sources on an international crisis. This has been evident nowhere more then with the on-going Iraq War as filmmakers continually find fresh perspectives absent from the media. The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends is the latest to offer a new side to the debate as it gives voice to the returning soldiers. The film explores the costs of the war by following the training of soldiers, and their struggle to come to terms with their combat experiences as they return home. The film is composed of cases of soldiers who suffer illness, injury, and post-traumatic stress disorders. The consequences made all the more disturbing by an accompanying investigation into the military instructing the soldiers to take others’ lives with calm.
- 8/23/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
- Quick Links > Patricia Foulkrod > The Ground Truth > Focus Features > Official Site Squeaking and grinding, the wheel has begun to turn. The traditional Hollywood production path for profit and success is being turned and manipulated in ways that are at once feared and counted on. The Ground Truth is the first foray into writing and directing for Patricia Foulkrod , primarily known for producing more mainstream films like Crazy Like A Fox (2004). The Hollywood Reporter reports that “Truth” will be shown in limited theatrical release, possibly as little as six Us cities then will follow up with a nationwide series of screenings in homes, churches, hospitals, libraries and other community centers on October 11, the four-year anniversary of the authorization to use military force in Iraq. This concept of nearly “guerilla distribution” is new, but not unheard of. In early 2006 Steven Soderbergh utilized the concept for his reality appearing Bubble
- 8/8/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
NEW YORK -- Focus Features has nabbed all worldwide rights to the Iraq war documentary The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends, slated for release this year. Screened in the independent film docu competition at January's Sundance Film Festival, producer-director Patricia Foulk-rod's feature follows six Iraq war veterans from their recruitment and missions through their experiences reacclimating when they return home. "Patricia has made a searing film, one with exclusive footage that will stun audiences," Focus Features president James Schamus said. "These soldiers are patriotic Americans articulating stories that must be heard, and we think filmgoers around the world are ready to watch and listen."...
- 4/11/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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