On That Day premiered during Channel Four's (UK) Happy Birthday Iraq Season: The Fifth Anniversary of the Iraq War

A film directed by Marc Hoeferlin and myself, recently went out on More4 in the UK. We spent around five months in the edit piecing together the massive puzzle of archive and eyewitness accounts that we had gathered as research for Broomfield senior's deeply moving fiction film "Battle for Haditha."

The material that Marc and I gained was truly unbelievable. We had unprecedented access to testimonies from actual marines involved in the incident to eery drone footage shot only 30 minutes after the IED explosion that ripped through the US Marine convoy, prompting the killing of 24 innocent Iraqi civilians. With relatively small funds we managed to get behind the misleading headlines of one of the worst atrocities of the Iraq war, not only exposing the absurd hypocrisy of the American military judicial system but showing that wether innocent bystander, insurgent or US marine, all are involved in a war not of their own making and beyond their control.

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The film will open at this months Labor Party Conference

Hot off the press, just finished a short film for Amnesty International on destitute asylum seekers living in the UK. The film (made by Marc Hoeferlin and myself) will be used to spearhead Amnesty's campaign against the UK governments' increasingly backward stance on the issue of asylum. While the UK only sees roughly 2% of the world's asylum seekers, 75% of those that apply are usually turned down. (An interesting fact: in 2006, 88% of Iraqis whom applied for asylum were refused.)

Needless to say, it was a fascinating insight into the massive underworld of destitution in this country and I hope that things will change, even if slightly. We focused on the testimony of three characters: a Zimbabwean teacher, an Iranian football star, and a Congolese educator. It was a very quick turn around and some very long hours...

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I have recently come back from a 5 week project in Zambia, a UNHCR refugee settlement known as Meheba to be precise. The camp sits right on the border with DRC Congo in the northern copper belt district. It was an immense place, a 850 sq k/ms settlement with only 15,000 souls there. There was no running water, no electricity, and no modern means of communication.

I went there to film a story about two Congolese pastors, Steven and Boniface, whom had survived the genocidal conflict of their home country and managed to become the life force of hundreds of people in Meheba Refugee Camp. I followed them on an amazing journey as Steven and his siblings left Africa to be granted asylum in Europe, leaving Boniface and his family back at the camp. It was a heart wrenching story with some of the most powerful music I've heard and filmed...

The trailer will be up soon but in the meantime have a look at some pics...

Arrived back a week and half ago from Papua New Guinea, one of the most remote parts of the world I've ever seen, and four days later jumped on a plane bound for Jerash, Jordan to help shoot my pops' film, The Battle for Haditha, a low budget fiction feature. Can't really go into too much detail at the moment, suffice to say that we have flown out 12 former US Marines, three Iraqi families and some American actors to play roles in what I believe will be an incredible story...

Have a look at the stills here

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In one weeks time I will be making my way to a remote village Vanimo on the north shore of Papua New Guinea just east of the border with Indonesia. I'll be meeting a dear friend of mine, Adam Pesce, a talented young filmmaker whose labor of love over the last five years has been to document the lives of some of the local, tribal surfers and the community the live in, a community at once cut off from the world yet under threat from the onslought of 'modernity.'

It will take two and half days to get there and we have called in favors all over the place to pool our resources and make this happen. To say that I am one lucky boy, would be an understatement. This will no doubt be an adventure of a lifetime and a good film to boot. More to come...

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