Full Disclosure - A Documentary by Brian Palmer, USA

FULL DISCLOSUREBrian Palmer, Director • 917.561.1964 • bxpnyc@earthlink.net

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Journalist Brian Palmer followed young U.S. Marines on dozens of missions during three embeds in Iraq between 2004 and 2006. Back in the States, he continued to document the war and its human cost. Full Disclosure captures the consistent, sometimes benign, but often tragic miscommunication between U.S. troops and vulnerable Iraqi citizens. Amid the inexorable and destructive momentum of the occupation, the documentary explores the consequences of our inability to speak with and understand those whose country we occupy. It exposes the gap between what we think we’re doing in Iraq and what we’re actually doing.
Iraq was the war five years ago when Palmer started Full Disclosure. Afghanistan was “the forgotten war.” The opposite may be true in 2010, but even as Americans turn toward “AfPak” and Yemen, the discord and damage in Iraq remain.

Brian Palmer is an independent journalist, photographer, and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. In 2009, he completed Full Disclosure, for which he received grants from the Ford Foundation and Applied Research Center. Palmer has written for Mother Jones, The Huffington Post, Pixel Press.org, ColorLines, Foam (Amsterdam), Independent World Report (Stockholm) among others. He is a Fellow at New York University Law School’s Center on Law and Security and a faculty member in the MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media Program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. From 2000 to 2002 he was an on-air correspondent at CNN. Prior to that, he was a staff writer at Fortune and Beijing Bureau Chief for US News & World Report. Palmer began his career in journalism in 1988 at The Village Voice newspaper.