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- Release Date:
- June 4, 2008
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Studio:
- Icarus Films
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- OPERATION FILMMAKER is now available on Home DVD and on Netflix 9:40am Dec 24
- OPERATION FILMMAKER one of 10 Best Films of 2008 8:57am Dec 16
- OPERATION FILMMAKER on NPR 12:59pm Aug 4
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- Home Video Release of OPERATIO...
Icarus Films Home Video
Tuesday, December 16 at 6:00pm - Sonoma Film Institute to scree...
Warren Auditorium, Sonoma State Uni...
Friday, November 7 at 7:00pm - SF IndieFest: DOC FEST
Roxie Cinema & Shattuck Cinema
Friday, October 17 at 2:00pm - OPERATION FILMMAKER in Cleveland!
Cleveland Museum of Art
Friday, October 10 at 7:00pm - The Carnegie to play OPERATION...
The Carnegie Visual and Performing ...
Sunday, October 5 at 5:00pm - Union Theatre to screen OPERAT...
Union Theatre
Tuesday, September 30 at 6:00pm - Calgary International Film Fes...
Calgary
Friday, September 19 at 6:00pm - OPERATION FILMMAKER at Cornell...
Willard Straight Theatre
Thursday, September 18 at 5:00pm - Harpur Film Society
Binghampton State University
Friday, September 19 at 7:30pm - 28th Atlantic Film Festival
Halifax
Thursday, September 11 at 5:00pm
As voted by John Anderson for IndieWIRE's Critic's Poll '08. http://www.indiewire.com/movies/2008/12/indiewire_criti_20.html
Now's your chance to see the film
If you missed OPERATION FILMMAKER in theaters or if you want the chance to see it again, don't miss the much anticipated home video release of the film in December!
Host:Operation Filmmaker
Time:6:00PM Tuesday, December 16th
Location:Icarus Films Home Video
2 nights only
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 sho...
Host:Operation Filmmaker
Time:7:00PM Friday, November 7th
Location:Warren Auditorium, Sonoma State University
2 nights only
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 sho...
Host:Operation Filmmaker
Time:7:00PM Friday, November 7th
Location:Warren Auditorium, Sonoma State University
Two nights only
When a young Iraqi’s dream of becoming a filmmaker is destroyed by U.S. bombs, American actor and director Liev Schreiber invites the 25-year-old to be an assistant on a movie...
Host:Operation Filmmaker
Time:7:00PM Friday, October 10th
Location:Cleveland Museum of Art
One night only
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 parab...
Host:Operation Filmmaker
Time:5:00PM Sunday, October 5th
Location:The Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center
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 parab...
Host:Operation Filmmaker
Time:6:00PM Friday, September 19th
Location:Calgary
Two nights only!
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 parab...
Host:Operation Filmmaker
Time:7:30PM Friday, September 19th
Location:Binghampton State University
"Ithaca's Year-Round Film Festival"
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 parab...
Host:Operation Filmmaker
Time:5:00PM Thursday, September 18th
Location:Willard Straight Theatre
At the beautifully restored Detroit Film Theatre
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 parab...
Host:Operation Filmmaker
Time:5:00PM Thursday, September 18th
Location:Detroit Institute of Arts
OPERATION FILMMAKER to be part of the festival
The fourth major film festival in Canada is the international Atlantic Film Festival, held every September in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Strong East Coast roots support a unique fo...
Host:Operation Filmmaker
Time:5:00PM Thursday, September 11th
Location:Halifax
With Nina Davenport as a Guest Speaker
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 parab...
Host:Operation Filmmaker
Time:7:00PM Monday, September 8th
Location:Wang Center
Free and for one night only!
Celluloid Bainbridge sponsors a free screening of the 2008 documentary Operation Filmmaker at The Lynwood Theatre on Sunday, August 31, beginning at 5 p.m. The film will be fo...
Host:Operation Filmmaker
Time:5:00PM Sunday, August 31st
Location:The Historic Lynwood Theatre
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91583157 Critic-at-large John Powers reviews Nina Davenport's documentary Operation Filmmaker, which follows Mohmed and his benefactors as a well-meant gesture goes dramatically (and comically) awry...
2 days only!
This is the story of how well-intentioned Americans try to intervene in the life of an Iraqi and how nothing goes as planned. Actor Liev Schrieber, after seeing an MTV reality...
Host:Operation Filmmaker
Time:6:00PM Tuesday, September 30th
Location:Union Theatre
1 day only!
This is the story of how well-intentioned Americans try to intervene in the life of an Iraqi and how nothing goes as planned. Actor Liev Schrieber, after seeing an MTV reality...
Host:Operation Filmmaker
Time:7:30PM Thursday, July 31st
Location:SPACE Gallery
The winner of the best input on the new poster is Julian Rubinstein who entered his comments on the Director, Nina Davenport's post on her page. His input read: "i think the new one is way better for marketing...
Even more alive—and morally disorienting to the point of inducing dementia—is Nina Davenport’s stupendous documentary Operation Filmmaker, the story of a grand American liberal-humanitarian gesture gone kerflooey...
We have done some work on the web site www.operationfilmmaker.com please take a look and let us know your thoughts, suggestions for further improvements, etc...
1 week only!
While documenting Muthana's relationships with the producers, crews and stars of both films - characterized by a psychologically fascinating stew of good intentions, bad faith...
Host:Operation Filmmaker
Time:6:00PM Friday, June 20th
Location:The Brattle Theatre
May 2, 2008 at 1:39pm
Operation Filmmaker