PRESS LINKS
- The New York Times Magazine review of four Iraqi war docs by Tom Bissel link
- WIRED.COM article about The Dreams of Sparrows by Jason Silverman link
- MTV NEWS interview with Aaron Raskin and Hayder Daffar by Suchin Pak link
- CNN Insight interview with Aaron Raskin and Hayder Daffar by Jonathon Mann and Kianne Sadeq link1 and link2
- NEWSWEEK: Periscope Section Q&A (link) in Domestic and Final Word Q&A (link) in Newsweek International by Lorraine Ali
- BBC's The World on NPR interview with Aaron Raskin and Hayder Daffar by Marco Werman link
- OpenSource Radio with Chris Lydon interview with Aaron Raskin and Hayder Daffar link
- Variety Dennis Harvey reviews The Dreams of Sparrows for the Arab Film Festival link
- New York Times Jason Buchanan's review of The Dreams of Sparrows link
- PopMatters Cynthia Fuchs' review of The Dreams of Sparrows link
- Rotten Tomatoes see how Dreams ranks link
- Filmthreat.com's Eric Campos' review of The Dreams of Sparrows link
RECENT PRESS CLIPPINGS
Through the eyes of Iraqis, in "The Dreams of Sparrows," we can finally divine what emerges from the war's digestive tract...From Baghdad's necropolis of slums and nightmarish refugee camps we travel with Daffar to its middle-class apartments, artists' hangouts, mosques and the headquarters of the Communist Party. This is a city of armed men and of stylish women nervously chain-smoking in their apartments; a city where children studying in a private school hold up crayon drawings and say, "Here the tank is aiming at the helicopter, and they exchange shells and rockets." - Tom Bissel, The New York Times Magazine (link)
You won't see this moving, vivid and revealing footage -- on your evening news. The scenes come from The Dreams of Sparrows...shot by a team of Iraqi filmmakers, Dreams is part of an independent, digitally enabled new wave of war reportage. - Jason Silverman, Wired.com (link)