A FIELD OF BLACKBIRDS
USA, in post-production; documentary; 3 min

Written and Directed by: Matt Danciger
Editor: Andy Jurgensen
Featuring: Archie Blackwell

In 1999 Archie Blackwell spent a year in Kosovo following the NATO intervention helping to rebuild the Kosovo Police Service. This film is an exploration of the ethnic cleansing and subsequent war and its effects on the people seen through the eyes of an old-country Texan. Interviews with Serbs and Albanians reveal a complex reality of former enemies and foes living in changed circumstances side by side, as the tables have turned…

Director Matt Danciger
Matt is an award winning filmmaker and recipient of a Director's Guild of America Award for 1994's "Outside." He has worked with top names in Hollywood, including directors Barry Levinson, Terry Gilliam and Kevin Reynolds. He is the winner of a Student Academy Award, and his films have been featured and critically acclaimed at film festivals here and abroad. In addition to directing over 30 shorts, he has produced music videos for EMI/Latin, co-directed a documentary on the Jonestown Massacre, and developed feature narratives for his company Loki Productions.
Most recently, Matt has completed productions for HBO and Sony Pictures Studios and is currently in production on a documentary on the Kosovo War. Danciger has also worked as director of photography, digital artist, sound designer and editor. With the dawn of digital non-linear post, Danciger became an in-demand talent as freelance editor of numerous commercials, music videos, television series, and shorts.


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