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Ian Olds. 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. Olds also created the documentary Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi, which depicts the working relationship ...
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.
Ford and his co-writer, Ian Olds, meticulously outline the story of policing as an American institution, from its horrific roots through to the untamable beast that has become its current form.
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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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 shot...
Region: Brooklyn, NY. MacDowell Fellowships: 2017. Ian Olds is a feature and documentary filmmaker currently living in Brooklyn. While in residence he completed the first draft of a feature screenplay for a new film (working title: The Interrogators) which he plans to direct in 2018.
Competition: US & Canada. 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 ...
