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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
- Article date:
- September 2, 2007
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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 country in the world.
"Meeting Resistance" will be shown at 5:15 and ...