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Broomfield Tackles Haditha for Next Doc

With a slew of controversial (or at least attention-getting) films and documentaries to his credit, British filmmaker Nick Broomfield has announced that his next project will disect the events in Haditha when 24 Iraqi civilians were killed by American soldiers.

Broomfield, than man behind eyebrow-raising fare like Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam and Kurt & Courtney, was also the last man to interview Aileen Wuornos (that's be the serial killer depicted in Monster).

He's already making headway on this latest project, which starts shooting in Joran this November. "We met with some of the survivors of the massacre who had a lot of material that they filmed, which gave us a very detailed idea of what happened," he said in a Reuters story. Bloomfield's at least starting off on a balanced foot, seeking out the soldiers, too. He said of them:

These are 18-year-old kids, a lot of whom are gang members, never even finished high school, went straight into the Marines, went through Fallujah and just got into that killing zone...They're not bad guys; they're just doing what they're trained to do.

Broomfield's Ghosts is currently in competition at the San Sebastian Film Festival. That film is a "dramatic reconstruction of real-life events," specifically the death of 23 Chinese immigrants who died on a beach in England in 2004 after being subjected to slave-labor-like conditions.

Thus far, Broomfield is the first to announce plans to cover the events in Haditha in a film.

Posted by Lisa on September 25, 2006 03:57 PM
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Um... I don't know anyone in my platoon that was a gang-member before they joined the Corps, and there's only like three of us that joined right after high school. This man is increidibly ignorant to say such a thing. Also, we're not soldiers damnit, we're Marines. This guy is gona mess this documentary up pretty bad.

-- Posted by: Marine Grunt at September 27, 2006 06:46 AM

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