REVIEW | Everything Is Deracinated: Nina Davenport's "Operation Filmmaker"

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GreenCine Daily found this 6/4/2008 on www.indiewire.com [flag]
by Michael Koresky (June 1, 2008) [An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot .] Thanks to a steaming pile of liberal-minded good will, Muthana Mohmed , a 25-year-old aspiring filmmaker was brought from Baghdad to the Czech Republic to intern on the set of an American movie production. Muthana received the invitation after having been spotted in an MTV-produced documentary about youth in ... [link]

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Interview. Nina Davenport.
Published 6/4/2008 at GreenCine Daily

Critic wrangle: "Operation Filmmaker."
Published 6/4/2008 by Alison Willmore at IFC: Indie Eye
... U.S./Iraq relationship) becoming the documentary "Operation Filmmaker," which opens in New York today to general acclaim. "One of the grace notes of this smartly put together documentary, which fluidly weaves talking-head interviews with on-the-ground footage, is that it implicates everyone, including those Americans who thought that with their money and their good intentions they could perform a miracle," writes Manohla Dargis at the New York Times. Michael Koresky at indieWIRE notes the filmmaker's growing complicity in the ...