Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

My Stretch of Texas Ground has been selected by another film festival, the Los Angeles based Blastoff Film Festival. They sent me this laurel, and they also informed me that both Jeff Weber and Junes Zahdi are in contention for Best Actor. 

I know that quite a few of my readers are from outside the US, and I want to inform them that the film is available on Vimeo and can be rented just about anywhere in the world. They accept the rental fee in many different currencies. So, I am going to put that link up in case any of them would like to watch it. 

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/mystretchoftexasground 

The film is very controversial, yet, in decrying the horrific human toll from the U.S. post-9/11 wars, there is nothing disputable about anything that is said. In fact, we low-balled everything. For instance, Sheriff Joe points out that when we bombed a wedding party in Afghanistan, trying to kill the Taliban, we killed children. But, the fact is that we have bombed 9 wedding parties in Afghanistan.  And, Abdul Latif Hassan refers to the death toll from the wars as "hundreds of thousands- and more." We could have said millions because American researchers have determined the total death toll emanating from the wars is in the millions. But, I made it "hundreds of thousands" just because I thought that if he said "millions" that a lot of people would think that it was an exaggeration- even though it would not have been. But, the actor Junes Zahdi approached me about it, and after I told him my thinking, he's the one who came up with the idea for his character to say "hundreds of thousands- and more."  And I liked it. I thought it was a great idea, and that's what he says in the film.      

I know I am biased, but without a doubt, the film is very unique, and it is very impassioned. I seriously doubt there is any more impassioned film than this one.