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| Posted at 1:3pm 9/11 filmmakers featured in magazine Three area men who made a controversial film about the events of 9/11 are featured in the August issue of Vanity Fair magazine. Headlined ``Click Here for Conspiracy,'' the article by Nancy Jo Sales is subtitled ``With $6,000 and a laptop computer, three kids from upstate New York made a documentary about 9/11 that spread across the Internet and threw millions for a loop.'' The film, "Loose Change," was written and directed by Dylan Avery of Oneonta and produced by Korey Rowe of Oneonta. It challenges official explanations of how the World Trade Center collapsed and the Pentagon was damaged on that fateful day. Since being available on the Web 16 months ago, the film has had about 10 million viewings and rose to No. 1 in May on Google's Top 100 Videos. Avery told The Daily Star in January that he set out a couple of years ago to create a fictional movie based on the events of 9/11, but as he compiled background information, he became convinced the true story was not being told. Fascinated by snippets from news reports and other sources that suggested the World Trade Center might have been demolished, and the Pentagon damaged by a missile rather than an airliner, he said, he decided to make a documentary asking hard questions. During most of this time, Rowe was a soldier in the U.S. Army, serving first in Afghanistan and then in Iraq. Avery and Rowe, both in their early 20s, have been good friends for years and stayed in touch while thousands of miles apart. Rowe said in January that at first, he was intrigued but not convinced that his friend was on to something. "It didn’t seem possible and it took a long time to sink in," Rowe said. While serving in Afghanistan, however, he observed television reporters filming staged battle scenes that were later presented as real battles to viewers, he said. "That started me thinking more about it," he said, and his experiences in Iraq further undermined his faith in official explanations, he said. The Vanity Fair article also includes interviews with Jason Bermas, who collaborated with Dylan and Rowe as a researcher. |