Deborah Scranton
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Deborah Scranton is the director of The War Tapes
, a documentary
detailing the personal stories of soldiers in the Iraq War. It was the first of its kind in that she sent the soldiers video cameras so they can shoot raw footage of their actual, on hand experiences in combat. The film won several honors, including Best International Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival
and Best International Documentary at BritDoc in 2006.
Scranton also produced and directed Bad Voodoo's Warhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/badvoodoo/, for Frontline/PBS and ITVS. The show first aired April 1, 2008. It reprised her virtual embed technique, focusing on a squad of U.S.soldiers deploying as part of the 'Surge'.
Her latest film, Earth Made Of Glass, will have its world premiere at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival
http://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/earth_made_of_glass-film26314.html in World Documentary Competition. A political thriller set in Rwanda and France, Earth Made of Glass features the President of Rwanda Paul Kagame as one of the film's main characters.
In 2007, she was a visiting fellow at The Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University http://www.watsoninstitute.org/news_detail.cfm?id=562 with the Global Media Project in the Global Security Program and taught a senior seminar on documentary filmmaking and social change.
Scranton speaks internationally on her "virtual embed" filmmaking technique. She has spoken at conferences and institutions including TED2007, Nordic Media Festival, The Frontline Club, Harvard, Yale, Center For Irregular Warfare - Quantico and the Tribeca Cinema Film Series. Scranton started her career in television covering sports events including the Tour de France, the Winter Olympics, and US Open Tennis and was also a special assignment reporter. Her work has been profiled in publications including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the International Herald Tribune.
A former US ski team member, she resides on a farm in the mountains of New Hampshire. She holds degrees from Brown University
and Dartmouth College
.
The War Tapes
The War Tapes is the first documentary film of the 2003 invasion of Iraq to be produced by the soldiers themselves. The film follows three New Hampshire National Guard soldiers before, during, and after their deployment to Iraq about a year after the invasion...
, a documentary
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
detailing the personal stories of soldiers in the Iraq War. It was the first of its kind in that she sent the soldiers video cameras so they can shoot raw footage of their actual, on hand experiences in combat. The film won several honors, including Best International Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival
Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Film Festival is a film festival founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff in a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the TriBeCa neighborhood in Lower Manhattan.The mission of the festival...
and Best International Documentary at BritDoc in 2006.
Scranton also produced and directed Bad Voodoo's Warhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/badvoodoo/, for Frontline/PBS and ITVS. The show first aired April 1, 2008. It reprised her virtual embed technique, focusing on a squad of U.S.soldiers deploying as part of the 'Surge'.
Her latest film, Earth Made Of Glass, will have its world premiere at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival
Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Film Festival is a film festival founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff in a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the TriBeCa neighborhood in Lower Manhattan.The mission of the festival...
http://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/earth_made_of_glass-film26314.html in World Documentary Competition. A political thriller set in Rwanda and France, Earth Made of Glass features the President of Rwanda Paul Kagame as one of the film's main characters.
In 2007, she was a visiting fellow at The Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University http://www.watsoninstitute.org/news_detail.cfm?id=562 with the Global Media Project in the Global Security Program and taught a senior seminar on documentary filmmaking and social change.
Scranton speaks internationally on her "virtual embed" filmmaking technique. She has spoken at conferences and institutions including TED2007, Nordic Media Festival, The Frontline Club, Harvard, Yale, Center For Irregular Warfare - Quantico and the Tribeca Cinema Film Series. Scranton started her career in television covering sports events including the Tour de France, the Winter Olympics, and US Open Tennis and was also a special assignment reporter. Her work has been profiled in publications including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the International Herald Tribune.
A former US ski team member, she resides on a farm in the mountains of New Hampshire. She holds degrees from Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
and Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
.
External links
- The War Tapes at Tribeca Film
- Front and Center: Deborah Scranton’s “The War Tapes” by Michael Joshua Rowin with responses from Chris Wisniewski and Nicolas Rapold, indieWIREIndieWireindieWIRE is a daily news site for the independent film community. It covers indie, documentary and foreign language films, as well industry news, film festival reports, filmmaker interviews and movie reviews...
, May 30, 2006 - 'The War Tapes': Soldiers Tell Their Own Iraq Stories, article by Michele NorrisMichele NorrisMichele L. Norris is an American radio journalist and current host of the National Public Radio evening news program All Things Considered since December 9, 2002. She is the first African American female host for NPR.-Early years:...
, National Public Radio, June 30, 2006 - Film sees war through soldiers' eyes, article by Richard Allen Greene, BBC NewsBBC NewsBBC News is the department of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online...
, 2 June 2006 - Deborah Scranton: Scenes from "The War Tapes", Scranton's TEDTED (conference)TED is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, formed to disseminate "ideas worth spreading"....
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