They gave 150 Iraqis DVD cameras and told them to just go out and shoot and when they were done to give the cameras to someone else. The result is a surprising and obviously honest look at Iraq today. If you are expecting pro-US agit prop, forget it. Very honest, lots of people want Saddam back and lots of people happy as hell he is gone. Their visions of the future are on display. What? Honest journalism? Well not in the LA, NY Times or any of the usual places. It is not being shown in theatres but their schedule for LA, NY, and DC is posted here. Only the WSJ bothered to look at and review the movie

.......film producers Eric Manes, Martin Kunert and Archie Drury sent 150 digital video cameras to Iraq and invited Iraqis to tape whatever they wanted--and then pass the cameras onto someone else. The three had no idea how the victims of first Saddam Hussein and then of the chaos that accompanied his fall would react.

By the end of last month, the producers had received some 450 hours of footage, taped all over the country with some 2,000 Iraqis. The scenes in their completed film, "Voices of Iraq" (www.voicesofiraq.com), come as a shock.

Yes, there is a mother sobbing in her kitchen because her son and four other family members have just been killed in the crossfire between U.S. soldiers and looters. There are stunned survivors picking through the ruins of a church bombed by insurgents. A tiny baby died there; its burned mother lies in a coma and its father has gone insane.

But mostly, overwhelmingly, there are signs of life and optimism. Iraqis have filmed themselves in busy streets, bustling markets and a packed amusement park, the bulbs on its rides lighting up the night sky. There is a jubilant graduation ceremony at Baghdad University, with singing, dancing and squirted confetti, and street celebrations after Iraq placed fourth in soccer at its first Olympics since 1988.

Go HERE for the entire review. I'm certainly going to do my best to see it, too bad Sinclair doesn't show it too. Wake up courtesy of sondrak.