“Armed with a Camcorder, a Marine penetrates the fog of war.” By Jon R. Anderson – Staff writer On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, visibility in the skies over New York City was unlimited — what some pilots call “severe clear.” It’s why the images of that day are so...
Saturday, April 3, 2010 BY GIOVANNA FABIANO STAFF WRITER LEONIA — First Lt. Mike Scotti wanted to give people at home a glimpse into the life of a Marine on the front lines of the Iraq invasion in 2003. So he strapped a hand-held video camera to his fighter helmet and...
By Julia Baird “We don’t have the luxury of choosing our wars. We go where and when our president tells us to—without hesitation. I know it’s hard for some to understand: no matter how much it sucks at times, we love what we f–king do” (Mike Scotti, in the documentary...
The year is 1991 and I’m a high school sophomore who eats, breathes and sleeps cinema. I live in Leonia, New Jersey, a small, sleepy, suburban town 15 miles from midtown Manhattan, and my heroes are George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola. Beyond the...
By Michael Slenske In pilotspeak the term “severe clear” describes a rare set of visibility conditions with an almost infinite amount of clarity, typically appearing after stormy weather. As fate would have it, those conditions presented themselves on the morning of...
I recently sat down with producer, and longtime Lower East Side resident, Marc Perez, to talk about his real life war movie, “Severe Clear.” After a successful festival circuit run, the documentary is opening at the Angelika this weekend. It was directed and edited...
