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Article: The other side: ?Meeting Resistance' filmmakers focus on struggles, hopes of ordinary Iraqis.
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- Columbia Daily Tribune (Columbia, MO)
- Article date:
- September 2, 2007
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Byline: Sara Agnew
Sep. 2--Photojournalists Molly Bingham and Steve Connors say their film about the war in Iraq tells a story most of the world has never heard.
"Meeting Resistance" is an 83-minute piece set in the streets, alleyways and tea shops of Baghdad's Adhamiya neighborhood, where Bingham and Connors set out to find "insurgents" and talk to them about how and why they had organized themselves against the U.S. occupation of their country. What the filmmakers learned is that these so-called "malcontent democracy-haters" were ordinary Iraqi citizens -- teachers, mothers and college professors -- who had taken up arms against the best-equipped ...