Operation Filmmaker

A year after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, actor Liev Schreiber had what he thought was a good idea: He'd reach out to a Baghdad film student, offering him an internship on a shoot in the Czech Republic. But good intentions don't always end in good outcomes: Muthana Mohmed wasn't the person the Hollywood veterans expected... he would be - and the dreary realities of an on-location shoot weren't what Mohmed thought he was signing up for. Nina Davenport's documentary OPERATION FILMMAKER, follows Mohmed and his benefactors as a well-meant gesture goes dramatically (and comically) awry. Read More

A year after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, actor Liev Schreiber had what he thought was a good idea: He'd reach out to a Baghdad film student, offering him an internship on a shoot in the Czech Republic. But good intentions don't always end in good outcomes: Muthana Mohmed wasn't the person the Hollywood veterans expected... he would be - and the dreary realities of an on-location shoot weren't what Mohmed thought he was signing up for. Nina Davenport's documentary OPERATION FILMMAKER, follows Mohmed and his benefactors as a well-meant gesture goes dramatically (and comically) awry. Read More

When Hollywood gives a young Iraqi film student the opportunity of a lifetime, nothing goes according to plan, and the result is an engaging, sometimes comical political parable about do-gooder intentions gone wrong.
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