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Ian Olds is an American film director. His directing credits include the documentary Occupation: Dreamland, which follows the 1/505 company of the 82nd Airborne Division in Fallujah, Iraq in early 2004 during the Iraq War.
Dec 9, 2016 · Burn Country: Directed by Ian Olds. With Dominic Rains, Melissa Leo, James Franco, Rachel Brosnahan. A former Afghan journalist seeking asylum discovers the dark underbelly of his new small-town home in Northern California.
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Dec 8, 2016 · Dominic Rains is quietly captivating in “Burn Country,” an amorphous study in table-turning directed by Ian Olds, a documentarian who is trying his first feature.
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Dec 2, 2016 · Ian Olds was making a documentary about the relationship between an Afghani fixer, Ajmal Naqshbandi, and a journalist on assignment from The Nation, Daniele Mastrogiacomo, when tragedy struck. While Olds was stateside raising funds to finish the film, Mastrogiacomo and Naqshbandi were kidnapped by the Taliban.
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Dec 9, 2016 · Burn Country marks Ian Olds’s first foray into fiction filmmaking after a pair of documentaries shot in Iraq and Afghanistan. Below, Olds speaks about the film’s origins, the Northern California landscape and his prior work with James Franco.
Ian Olds is a director of both narrative and documentary work. His directing credits include Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi (winner of top jury prizes at Tribeca and Madrid, acquired by HBO, released theatrically in New York and Los Angeles, and nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism), the Iraq war doc Occupation ...
Mar 9, 2010 · As unsettling and complex as the country it traverses, “Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi,” Ian Olds’s stunning documentary, swings between events surrounding that murder and footage ...
