| The Kill Team (79 min) Afghanistan/US |
[watch trailer] |
Friday 10/17, 9:50 PM (Session 4)
Director: Dan Krauss
Producers: Linda Davis, Dan Krauss
Description:
The film goes behind closed doors to tell the riveting story of Specialist Adam Winfield, a twenty-one-year-old infantryman in Afghanistan who attempted with the help of his father to alert the military to heinous war crimes his platoon was committing. Tragically, his father's pleas for help went unheeded. Once Adam's fellow soldiers got wind of what he'd done, they threatened to silence him -- permanently. Forced to choose between his conscience and his own survival, Adam found himself drawn into a moral abyss, faced with a split-second decision that would change his life forever. With extraordinary access to the key individuals involved in the case – including Adam, his passionately supportive parents, and his startlingly candid compatriots —THE KILL TEAM is an intimate look at the personal stories so often lost inside the larger coverage of the longest war in US history.
Biography:
Dan Krauss was nominated for an Academy Award and two Emmy Awards for his first film, The Death of Kevin Carter. The film also won prizes from the Tribeca Film Festival, the International Documentary Association and The San Francisco International Film Festival, among others. Working as a director of photography, Krauss has photographed numerous feature documentaries, including: Inequality for All (Sundance Film Festival, 2013 – Special Jury Prize); Broadway Idiot (SXSW, 2013); We Are Legion (SXSW 2012); The Most Dangerous Man in America (Academy Award nomination, 2010); and Life 2.0 (Sundance Film Festival, 2010). In 2012, Krauss received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a fellowship from the Sundance Documentary Institute. Krauss earned his master’s degree from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, where he is presently a lecturer in film and television production.
Contact Information:
Oscilloscope Laboratories
e: kate@oscilloscope.net
w: www.oscilloscope.net
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