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Reviews
**“The best documentaries, and surely ONE MORE MILE
is in that class, speak to larger truths. As the U.S. launches forth on
its next decade of imperialism, we need to be reminded that we are repeating
history. The bureaucracy being created by foreign aid workers in Bosnia
foreshadows one we are about to create in Iraq…and then, God knows
where else? With clarity and justifiable irony, these filmmakers have
presented the well-intentioned internationals, newcomers to this beleaguered
country, as they must appear to natives, as 21st century carpetbaggers.
It is the kind of documentary that is likely to seem even more relevant
10 years from now than it does today.”
- George Stoney, Documentary Filmmaker and Professor of Documentary Film,
N.Y.U.
** “The flocks of foreign journalists have left Sarajevo, their
place now
taken by scores of ‘internationals’ who have come to run Bosnia
and ‘set the standard’ for the country’s acceptable
international integration. But the process of enhanced nation-building
is not an easy one. A recurring image of a chess-game persists throughout
ONE MORE MILE: could one wrong move put an end to the fragile peace? Filmmakers
Elizabeth Coffman and Ted Hardin travel through Bosnia and talk to local
people and international program officers tracing the difficult choices
they all face in areas like education, the economy, the arts, and the
media. In a mosaic fashion, the film explores various facets of present-day
Bosnian life, tackling a range of uneasy issues- the oblivious attitudes
to reconciliation, the controversial international involvement, the rise
in faith-based segregation, the daunting outmigration. But it all ends
on an optimistic note, showing ordinary Bosnians sharing their ordinary
‘utopian’ dreams.”
- Dina Iordanova, author of Cinema of Flames: Balkan Film, Culture and
the Media
** “About the only thing more complex than trying to rebuild a country
from the
ground up is trying to make a film about the process. ONE MORE MILE does
just that, pulling together the fragmented remnants of characters and
dreams in a landscape that has been reduced to physical and ideological
rubble.”
- Russell Porter, Documentary Filmmaker, Chicago, Illinois
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