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MICHELE NORRIS
NPR All Things Considered
06-23-2008
Documentary Sheds Light on Young Iraqi

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This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Michele Norris.

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A young Iraqi film student catches the eye of a Hollywood up-and-comer. They make a deal for a cross-cultural exchange, and a documentarian comes to catch their relationship on film. Sounds like a nice story, but nothing turned out the way it was meant to, including the documentary, which is now opening across the country.

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	Putting the focus on the filmmaker ; Documentarians address their role at ICA forum ; ...Nina Davenport's 95-minute "Operation Filmmaker" plays, followed by a conversation...York, studied with McElwee. "Operation Filmmaker" starts out as a profile of...confident, Iraqi film student named Muthana Mohmed who is given an internship...that, "similar to `Backyard,' ...
	FEST TO SHOW FILMS ON IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN.(LIFESTYLE) ; ...couple who lose their son in Iraq, and Nina Davenport's Operation Filmmaker, in which a well-intentioned program to fund an Iraqi...screened at 5:45 p.m. April 6 at the Bartell Theatre, and Operation Filmmaker will play at 5 p.m. April 4 at Monona Terrace. The films...
	OPERATION FILMMAKER ; OPERATION FILMMAKER An almost unbearable documentary about a spoiled upper-middle-class film student from Baghdad who is "discovered" by MTV soon after...
	The documentary dilemma ; ...on hand to talk about it at a sneak preview of her "Operation Filmmaker" tonight at 7 at the Harvard Film Archive. The movie...and power. Its focus is an Iraqi film student named Muthana Mohmed who was interviewed on MTV after US bombs hit his...in a report from the Toronto Film Festival, where ...
	ROTTERDAM FILM FESTIVAL ; ...the political spectrum, Nina Davenport's documentary Operation Filmmaker followed the plight of the Iraqi film student Muthana Mohmed, who was plucked from the streets of Baghdad to intern...Similar to other recent U.S./Middle East equations, Operation Filmmaker reveals what happens ...
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	Set Your Sights on Mideast Cinema ; ...in Hollywood throughout film history. Also on tap: the documentary "Operation Filmmaker," Nina Davenport's absorbing, often painfully funny chronicle of Muthana Mohmed, a 25-year-old Iraqi who was hired by Liev Schreiber as an intern on...

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