kino21 presents
HOW WE FIGHT Program 5: Mercenaries
"Shadow Company" by Nick Bicanic and Jason Bourque (Canada, 2007, 85 minutes)
- When
- Sun Nov 23, 2008
- Where
- Artists' for Television Access (ATA)
- Time
- 8pm
- Tags
- Movies, Film Screenings, Film Organizations, Organizations
Description
This film examines the profession of the “private security contractor,” the most recent euphemism for the age-old profession of the mercenary. Nick Bicanic trained with Blackwater in order to make this film which follows some of the private security contractors in Iraq, where the use of private military companies (PMCs) is far more extensive than in any other war in modern history. The film also explores other sites of contemporary conflict where mercenaries play a significant role and examines the history of the profession through interviews with war journalists, historians, ethicists, soldiers and mercenaries themselves.Due to unavoidable circumstances concerning international screening rights, we are not able to screen Romuald Karmakar’s "Warheads" for its final HOW WE FIGHT: Mercenaries program. Instead, we are substituting a free screening of the also excellent and excellently titled Canadian film Shadow Company, taking us back where we started the series: Iraq today.
More Info
- Link
- http://www.kino21.org/
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- (415) 824-3890
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