Just a quick note about the documentary Restrepo which I saw last night at the Eccles. It was the film's world premiere. Directed by a couple of veteran journalists from Vanity Fair who lived with and documented their subjects for a whole year. The film brought you up close and personal with a platoon at the deadliest valley in Afghanistan. You lived through their constant, terrifying and at times deadly fights with the often unseen enemy, you got to know their fears and their dreams, you were swept away into their special camaraderie, you learned to respect their skills and their tenacity, and you asked yourself why, why, why are they there...
The house was full (it seats 1,300), with people like Michael Moore in the audience...and everyone stayed for the Q&A. Sundance new festival director John Cooper remarked that this was the biggest audience Sundance has had for a documentary...
Co-executive produced by National Geographic I know the film will have television broadcast. We'll see if it will have theatrical release as well. I wish the film luck.
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