Redacted (film)
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| Directed by | Brian De Palma |
| Produced by |
Jason Kliot Simone Urdl Joana Vicente Jennifer Weiss |
| Written by | Brian De Palma |
| Starring |
Ty Jones Kel O'Neill Daniel Stewart Sherman Izzy Diaz Rob Devaney Patrick Carroll |
| Cinematography | Jonathon Cliff |
| Edited by | Bill Pankow |
| Distributed by | Magnolia Pictures |
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90 minutes |
| Country | United States Canada |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $5 million |
| Box office | $782,102 |
Redacted is a 2007 American war film written and directed by Brian De Palma. It is a fictional dramatization, loosely based on the 2006 Mahmudiyah killings in Mahmoudiyah, Iraq, when U.S. Army soldiers raped an Iraqi girl and murdered her along with her family. This film, which is a companion to an earlier film by De Palma, 1989's Casualties of War, was shot in Jordan.
Redacted premiered at the 2007 Venice Film Festival, where it earned a Silver Lion "best director" award. It was also shown at the Toronto International Film Festival, the New York Film Festival and the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema. The film opened in Spain, and in fifteen theaters in limited release in the United States on November 16, 2007. The film received mixed reactions from critics and a poor financial response in its limited U.S. release.
In early April 2006, Private First Class Angel "Sally" Salazar (Izzy Diaz), a young United States Army soldier serving in the Iraq War, is an aspiring filmmaker who enlisted in the U.S. Army to help him get into film school, as he "did not get into USC". Salazar, based out of Camp "The Oven" Carolina, near Samarra, Iraq, is using his camcorder to record an amateur documentary, Tell Me No Lies, about his deployment in Samarra, to present to a film school of his choice as part of his future enrollment there as a student. Meanwhile, a French documentary crew is shooting a documentary called Barrage while they are embedded with Salazar's platoon.
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