This past September [2006], at the 25th Annual Vancouver International Film Festival, documentary filmmaker James Longley was on hand at the Canadian premiere of his important and timely film Iraq in Fragments. This film, in addition to winning all the major documentary awards at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006, was nominated in the Best Documentary Feature Category at the 2006 Academy Awards. The documentary, which chronicles the unfolding reality of the year in-between the invasion of Iraq by American forces and the lead up to the civil war in the country, records the three major regions of the country and presents a compelling portrait of the people, their landscapes and their hardships that face their daily lives in Post-War Iraq.
Cinephile was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to sit down over breakfast to discuss Longley’s important film with him.