From Deborah Scranton:

Dear War Tapes Community,

The Tribeca Film Festival has been nerve-wracking, breathless, emotional, evocative and extraordinary. Every screening so far leaves people talking and grappling and opening themselves up, conversations spill out onto the theater sidewalks and often continue on into coffeeshops and bars. There are two more screenings and then we're done, and have our fingers crossed -- if there's any way we can get an award, it makes it so much more likely that we can get the film shown across the country. The awards are Saturday night... keep up with what happens on the blog. I also did a panel in the Tribeca Talks series with Anthony Swofford (the guy who wrote Jarhead) and a few mainstream journalists -- they were skeptical of The War Tapes, saying you needed more distance to digest the war. As far as I'm concerned, sure, for political decisions you may need distance, but as a country, we need to be alot closer, and stop abstracting.

Anyway, I just wanted to give you an update -- we'll send more updates as the festival closes -- and a new clip, as promised. What is an REMF?:

http://www.thewartapes.com/2006/05/post_1.shtml

If you don't know, watch it. And then pass it on. All we've got now, to make sure this film and this idea of soldiers telling their own stories in movies, is you -- so please spread the word!!!

all the best,
Deborah

Deborah Scranton, Director
The War Tapes

www.thewartapes.com
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