Go Max!!

From my fab­ulously tal­en­ted friend, xammy:

Just let­ting you know that My Home, Your War will be screen­ing on SBS this Tues­day (April 3) at 8:30pm (Cut­ting Edge slot).

Kylie Grey and I filmed this pro­ject in Bad­h­dad just after the US inva­sion, and we wit­nessed the col­lapse of social order and secur­ity and the erosion of the very freedoms that the coali­tion were sup­posedly fight­ing for. Being there at such a time was a unique exper­i­ence, and I’m really happy to see this film finally go to air.

The team Home, Your War includes dir­ector and co-pro­du­cer Kylie Grey, pro­du­cer Marcus Gillezeau (Fire­light Pro­duc­tions), exec­ut­ive pro­du­cer Chantal Denoux (Denoux Film Pro­duc­tions), editor Matt Walker, com­poser Barton Staggs, and many others. Max Bourke from Pig­fish was DOP and asso­ci­ate producer.

The film recently won the Gold World Medal for Best Doc­u­ment­ary in the Film & Video cat­egory in New York Films Fest­ivals (Kylie and Chantal are pic­tured with the award below) so we’re all really proud, and invite you to tune tomor­row and check it out.

08:30 pm CUTTING EDGE – MY HOME YOUR WAR – Shot in Bagh­dad over three years
My Home, Your War takes you inside the home of an Iraqi family as they deal with the dis­rup­tions and ter­rors of war as it affects their daily lives. Layla is a middle class Iraqi woman, strik­ing and intel­li­gent – but the war is test­ing her most intim­ate rela­tion­ships. Meet her shy teen­age son who she sus­pects is work­ing with the anti-US res­ist­ance; her steady but work­aholic hus­band: and her once rad­ical sister who is becom­ing increas­ingly con­ser­vat­ive and reli­gious as the chaos of Bagh­dad fuels her insec­ur­it­ies. Layla and her family give a reveal­ing insight into the con­trast­ing ways war and régime change strain close rela­tion­ships, nur­ture extrem­ism and change a fam­ily’s des­tiny. (From Aus­tralia, in Eng­lish and Arabic with Eng­lish subtitles)