I recently sat down with producer, and longtime Lower East Side resident, Marc Perez, to talk about his real life war movie, “Severe Clear.” After a successful festival circuit run, the documentary is opening at the Angelika this weekend. It was directed and edited...
by Elias Andrinopoulos “Severe Clear”, the uncompromsing new documentary film from Sirk Producions, had it’s inception in 2004 when a young Marine, newly returned from combat, walked into NYU’s Tisch School of Film one fateful day. Heavy with a bag of DV tapes under...
By Kenji Fujishima A small, independently-financed film exists that captures, with utmost realism and gritty immediacy, the experience of being an American soldier in Iraq during the 2003 invasion. No, it’s not Kathryn Bigelow’s “The Hurt Locker,” which took home an...
By MARK WALKER Despite serving in the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, former Camp Pendleton Marine Mike Scotti says the defining moment in his military career happened two years later in Iraq when he encountered a field full of corpses. “I became a veteran at the moment...
by Andy Lauer Stories of starvation, persecution, escape from the world’s worst human rights violator, and a surprising inside look at an iconic cult are among the topics on display in this year’s selection of films at the upcoming DocuWeeks showcase in NYC and LA....
SEVERE CLEAR’S KRISTIAN FRAGA AND MIKE SCOTTI By Alicia Van Couvering Severe Clear premiered at SXSW this week, five years to the day after the US invasion of Baghdad. Back then, Kristian Fraga was just one of millions, watching events unfold on cable news. First...
