INCIDENT IN NEW BAGHDAD returns for Special Screening
"An important insider's glimpse into the WikiLeaks video that shocked the world, as told by one of the soldiers on the ground. James Spione's terrifying and powerful film and Ethan McCord's bold act of speaking out is an urgent call to all of us, soldier and civilian alike, for a national conversation on the real tragedy and costs of the post 9/11 wars. It jolted me awake." — Josh Fox, director, “Gasland”
WICHITA, KAN — The Tallgrass Film Association has partnered with Wichita State’s Ulrich Museum of Art to present a special screening of the short film INCIDENT IN NEW BAGHDAD, at 6 p.m., Friday, Feb. 10 at the Murdock Theater, 536 N. Broadway. Tickets are $10 general admission; $8 students, seniors, military, WSU faculty and staff; and free for Tallgrass Film Association and Ulrich Museum members. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
The film won Best Documentary Short at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, Grand Prize Documentary Short at the 2011 Rhode Island International Film Festival and the Audience Award at the 2011 Tallgrass Film Festival. It is shortlisted for a 2012 Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Short Subject. Both director James Spione, and the film’s subject, former U.S. Army Specialist and Wichita resident Ethan McCord will attend the screening.
Following the film, Spione and McCord will participate in a conversation and audience Q&A with moderator and Wichita Eagle reporter Ron Sylvester. A reception with hosted bar and hors d’oeuvres follows from 7:30 to 8:30 pm. KMUW is media sponsor for the event, which is also sponsored by the Peace and Social Justice Center of South Central Kansas, Murdock Theater, WSU College Democrats and the WSU Young Democratic Socialists.
INCIDENT IN NEW BAGHDAD is a compelling film from New York filmmaker Spione, a Student Academy Award winner, that focuses on former U.S. Army Specialist and Wichita Ethan McCord, the subject of a 2007 Wikileaks controversy, who witnessed one of the most notorious incidents of the Iraq War — the slayings of two Reuters journalists and a number of other unnamed civilians by U.S. attack helicopters in Iraq.
Spione will lead a Tallgrass Filmmakers Lab: Making and Marketing Your Independent Film In A Digital World on Saturday, Feb. 11, at the Wichita Art Museum.
