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Directed by | James Spione |
Edited by | James Spione |
Music by | Emile Menasche |
Distributed by | Seventh Art Releasing |
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Running time | 22 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Incident in New Baghdad is a 2011 short documentary film about the July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike, directed by James Spione.
The film features a first-person account from Ethan McCord, one of the first soldiers to arrive at the scene of the airstrike that killed 12 [1] [2] to "over 18" [3] [4] people and wounded 2 children [5] [6] in New Baghdad during the Iraq War.
The film premiered theatrically at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the prize for Best Short Documentary. [7] It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject at the 84th Academy Awards. [8] It was the second Kickstarter-funded film to be nominated for an Academy Award. [9]