Full Battle Rattle

Critically acclaimed Full Battle Rattle is the story of a real war and a fake town. In California's Mojave Dessert, the US Army has built a 'virtual Iraq' - a billion dollar urban warfare simulation- and populated it with hundreds of Iraqi role-players. Army units spend three weeks inside the simulation before deploying to Iraq.

Full Battle Rattle follows an Army Battalion through the simulation, as they attempt to quell an insurgency and prevent the mock village of Media Wasl from slipping into civil war. The story is told from both sides of the conflict, and filtered through a compelling cast of characters, including the Army Colonel who commands the Battalion, the Iraqi exiles who play civilians on the battlefield, and the American soldiers cast as 'insurgents'. We follow our subjects from the moment the receive their role assignments through their simulated 'deaths'.

Despite the movie-set contrivances, the stakes and the emotions are very real. As reality and fantasy overlap, the film moves from comic to surreal to poignant.

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