James Longley’s short film ‘Sari’s Mother’ has been nominated for Best Documentary Short at the 2007 Academy Awards. Sari’s mother is on the 2nd disc of the Iraq in Fragments DVD Special Edition.
ACADEMY AWARDS HISTORY
This is the second Academy Award nomination for James Longley. He was previously nominated for:
* IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS (2006) — […]
Nominated - Academy Award® Best Documentary Feature - 2007
Nominated - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary - Directors Guild of America
Winner -Distinguished Feature Documentary Award - International Documentary Association
Winner - Best Documentary Directing - Sundance Film Festival
Winner - Best Documentary Cinematography - Sundance Film Festival
Winner - Best Documentary Editing- Sundance Film Festival
Nominated - Grand Jury Prize […]
“But pointing the camera need not always involve pointing a finger. James Longley’s Iraq in Fragments is the latest entry in the crowded field of documentaries from that war. It is also one of the best, partly because it is more concerned with exploring daily life and individual destinies than with articulating a position. The […]
[ pre-production ]
One rainy Seattle evening in the spring of 2002 I was fielding questions at the premiere of my first feature documentary, Gaza Strip. Someone finally asked the question that always gets asked: “What are you going to make next?” Without thinking I replied that I would make a documentary about Iraq.
At […]
I set my mind to making a film about Iraq in early 2002 when it became clear that the United States would invade. By September 2002, I had found a way to travel to Iraq with my camera, tagging along with several US journalists following Congressman Jim McDermott to Baghdad as he made a prophetic […]
James Longley was born in Oregon in 1972. He studied film at the University of Rochester and Wesleyan University in the United States, and the All-Russian Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow. His student documentary, Portrait of Boy with Dog, about a boy in a Moscow orphanage, was awarded the Student Academy Award in 1994 […]
