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Soldier's Pay Finds a Distributor
Posted on September 22, 2004
Soldier's Pay is a 35-minute documentary featuring interviews with Iraqi refugees, human rights officials and veterans of the current war on Iraq. As we reported on September 8th, the film, co-directed by Juan Carlos Zaldívar (Director of How to Make a Bird), Tricia Regan and David O. Russell, was embroiled in controversy when Warner Brothers refused to distribute it as part of the Three Kings DVD.
Since Warner Brothers announced that the film had too explicit an anti-war message for them, the filmmakers have been looking for alternative distribution. As the Miami Herald reported yesterday, they got it:
Filmmaker David O. Russell has found a distributor for a new anti-war documentary that was supposed to be featured on a new DVD of his George Clooney film "Three Kings" before Warner Bros. rejected it. Cinema Libre Studio announced Wednesday it plans to release Russell's film, "Soldiers Pay," on a double-bill with the separate documentary "Uncovered: The War in Iraq."
"The political (documentary) double-bill makes a powerful duo, complimenting each other with strong arguments about the consequences of war and the lies that were told to get there," Lauri Blue, spokeswoman for the company, said Wednesday...Cinema Libre said "Soldiers Pay" and "Uncovered" would start screening together Thursday in San Francisco, with plans to expand across the country in coming weeks...Russell's film also will become part of the "Uncovered" DVD release, set for October 19.
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