by Shannonn Kelly
ReelHeART has been reporting on this story weeks back when De Palma’s film gave the Venice Film Festival audience and judges a hard dose of reality with his Iraq war film “Redacted”.
Since the Q & A squabble over at the New York Film Festival, things are heating up and for good reason.
De Palma’s film depicts the harsh reality of war; often it being crimes against civilians by US soldiers. Because his film isn’t another “Private Ryan”, De Palma’s film is being censored and he’s damn pissed about it. Ironically, his own film is being redacted.
Redacted focuses on among other atrocities of war, the true story of Abeer Qasim Hamza al-Janabi a 14 year old girl who was gang-raped, killed and burned by US soldiers in March of 2006.
Many people, including De Palma’s own distributor have demanded De Palma redact accounts and/or blur images of real soldiers in his critically acclaimed film.
Support De Palma and demand that facts and perpetrators be shown. De Palma is bravely putting faces and names to this horrible crime and other fatalities. ReelHeART supports De Palma…
Stop watching CNN and read ‘real’ articles and accounts of this 14 year old girl’s tragedy and others in Time Magazine and Third Estate Sunday Review and at Muslim Matters.org
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