INCIDENT IN NEW BAGHDAD - 2012 Academy Award Nomination - Best Documentary Short

(WARNING: Contains graphic war imagery.) New preview for James Spione's documentary INCIDENT IN NEW BAGHDAD, winner of the Best Documentary Short Award at the Tribeca Film Festival and the Grand Prize for Documentary Short at the Rhode Island Film Festival. More information at www.incidentinnewbaghdad.com

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[jspione]

Thank you for your comment, rangergirl. This is a short movie about one soldier's experience, so it obviously will not conform to other's subjective viewpoints. As I mentioned in the discussion last night, my hope is that the attention granted to this film will spur interest and backing in a longer piece which will incorporate the perspectives of others. But as a movie that gets into the mind of a fighter who has a change of heart about his own part in war, I believe my film stands on its own.

[jspione]

Thanks, Cubachik!

[Cubachik]

CONGRATULATIONS on the just-announced 2012 Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature for "Incident in New Baghdad"!

[jefferson17399]

Awesome . How do I get a copy? A lot of people who can't handle the truth. A lot of people in denial.

[rangergirl56m]

Oh there are so many things I could say. My husband(an Iraqi War Vet) & I watched your documentary last night. We almost walked out. The truth about what happened that day does need to come out, but you focused the entire documentary on one of those who is NOT telling the truth! I feel that by only interviewing McCord, you have given just as skewed version as wikileaks did with their edited video! You have amazing skills as a director, I just wish you would have shown more than one side.

[branyn1]

This is crap. The guy had a RPG, and the idiot cameramen were in the wrong place at the wrong time. They knew the risks, and they chose to go anyway. This time it just didn't work out for them.

[soldaat1947]

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

[ZzzparkzzZ]

Horrific events like the ones shown in the "Collateral Murder" video happened regularly McCord said. Remember, Wikileaks´ "Collateral Murder" video shows some 40 mins of a decade of war! Just imagine all the collateral murders we haven´t seen yet and never will see! Think about the atrocities committed by private armies like Xe (Blackwater before), that have more free hands than the regular army.

[AnnikaGarratt]

Good work!!