Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi
TFI Suppport
Logline
Fixer focuses on the relationship between an Afghan translator, Ajmal Naqshbandi, and his American client, the war journalist, Christian Parenti. What begins as an intimate portrait of two colleagues at work turns dark when Taliban fighters in Southern Afghanistan kidnap Ajmal and an Italian journalist during a dangerous trip to interview a high-level commander. What follows is the tragic story of one man forgotten in the crossfire set against a failing state slowly losing the faith of its people.
Ian Olds
Director
Ian Olds is a director of both narrative and documentary work. He and Garrett Scott directed the feature documentary Occupation: Dreamland, an in depth portrait of a squad of American soldiers deployed in the doomed Iraqi city of Falluja. Occupation: Dreamland was short-listed for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and won a 2006 Independent Spirit Award for emerging documentary directors. Olds' is also the editor and co-writer of Cul de Sac: A Suburban War Story and his short fiction films have played at numerous festivals in the US and abroad including Sundance, Rotterdam and LA film festivals in 2007. Ian is a Princess Grace Award recipient and earned his MFA from Columbia University's Film Division in 2006.