Today someone alerted me to the existence of Hometown Baghdad, an ongoing documentary series about a group of twentysomethings and their far-from-ordinary everyday lives in the Iraqi capital. The project is an innovative collaboration between a group of Iraqi filmmakers and New York's Chat the Planet, a 'global dialogue company'. At a time when it's all too easy to be desensitized by the endless stream of statistics of Baghdad's daily death toll, Hometown Baghdad emotionally re-engages viewers and reminds them that Iraqis are essentially people just like us.
I'm embedding the first episode below, and the other four can be found on Salon.com's Video Dog site.
