Directed by Peter Jordan & John Kane
Stanford University, USA
After being discharged from Walter Reed Army Medical Center, a happy-go-lucky American soldier returns with his wife and daughter to their home in Kentucky.
Alternately tragic and comic, Left in Baghdad is a portrait of a family man on the first day of the rest of his life, which he must live without his left arm.
Category: Documentary
Run-Time: 13:00
School: Stanford University, USA
Year of production: 2007
Shooting locations: Washington, DC & KY
Shooting format: MiniDV (NTSC)
Screening format: DigiBeta
People/Crew
Producers Peter Jordan & John Kane
Directors Peter Jordan & John Kane
Cinematographers Peter Jordan & John Kane
Picture Editors Peter Jordan & John Kane
Filmmaker Bios
Peter Jordan
Peter Jordan is the director of Localfilms, a
grassroots production company that partners with international
humanitarian organizations to empower communities through film. His
films explore pressing human rights concerns from the perspectives of
children around the world. He also teaches children how to make their
own films, using plastic video cameras and a solar powered computer.
He has directed film projects in Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Botswana,
South Africa, Brazil, Ecuador, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, the
Philippines, and Sudan. He is currently a graduate student in
documentary filmmaking at Stanford.
John Kane
After graduating from Swarthmore College with a BA in
English, John worked as a web developer and designer in San
Francisco. There, he began studying Spanish and eventually moved to
Mexico City, where he spent two years working, traveling, and
absorbing local slang. Back in San Francisco, John made his first
documentary, "Josue, Sin Cara (Josue, Without a Face)", which
portrayed the day-to-day life of a child undocumented immigrant from
Honduras. His next film, "Orishas are Our Saints" has screened at
Silverdocs, the Silver Lake Film Festival (LA), and as part of
Independent Exposure. John is a graduate student in documentary
filmmaking at Stanford University.
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