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BlogHer Contributing Editor Professor Kim Pearson conducted a live-chat this evening with film director, Lorna Ann Johnson. You can read about Lorna, see a clip of her film and replay the engrossing live-chat all here. About Lorna’s work from the BlogHer post:
Director Lorna Johnson’s new film, Just Another War, meditates upon the impact of the Iraq war on Americans — especially upon American women. Johnson’s film will be shown March 15 at the Montreal Human Rights Film Festival, where it is up for an audience award. If you are in Montreal and can get to see it, please do. It is an affecting and thought-provoking film.
The 28-minute documentary profiles two women whose lives have been irrevocably affected. LeRon Green is a soldier who has seen combat; Elaine Brower is a mother and anti-war activist whose son is in Iraq for his second tour. Johnson puts herself on-screen as well, wondering why she and so many other Americans seem to be able to go on with everyday life while thousands of Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis have died. During the course of the film, she gives birth to a son of her own, and wonders whether he will grow up to find himself called to arms.
It’s true that many of us either don’t have family or friends who’ve been involved or impacted directly by the Iraq war. Lorna’s film appears to be a force that, if anything can inject a sense of what it must be to be family or friends of people involved directly, it will.
Thank you to BlogHer, Kim, Lorna and the other participants for making this kind of interaction available.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:24 pm March 10th, 2009 in Blogging, Foreign Affairs, Gender, live-blog, war
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Thanks, Jill for your thoughtful participation, and for spreading the world!
I meant the “word” — but the world has a nice ring to it. (smile)