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Operation filmmaker a film

"In the wake of Operation Iraqi Freedom, American actor Liev Schreiber had an idealistic notion : to rescue an Iraqi film student from the rubble of his country and bring him to the West to intern on a Hollywood movie ('Everything Is illuminated). It promised to be a heartwarming tale, a small victory out of the troubled mission of the U.S. war in Iraq. But as in the war itself, good intentions yielded unintended consequences, and even this operation doesn't go according to plan. Director Nina Davenport becomes personally involved in Schreiber's charitable effort, and soon finds herself embroiled in a complex moral quagmire and all-consuming power struggle between filmmaker and subject"--Http://www.operationfilmmaker.com/synopsis.html.

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  • ""In the wake of Operation Iraqi Freedom, American actor Liev Schreiber had an idealistic notion : to rescue an Iraqi film student from the rubble of his country and bring him to the West to intern on a Hollywood movie ('Everything Is illuminated). It promised to be a heartwarming tale, a small victory out of the troubled mission of the U.S. war in Iraq. But as in the war itself, good intentions yielded unintended consequences, and even this operation doesn't go according to plan. Director Nina Davenport becomes personally involved in Schreiber's charitable effort, and soon finds herself embroiled in a complex moral quagmire and all-consuming power struggle between filmmaker and subject"--Http://www.operationfilmmaker.com/synopsis.html."@en
  • "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."@en
  • "During the Iraq War, actor/director Liev Schreiber whisks a 25-year-old Iraqi film student out of Baghdad with the intention of providing the young man with a job on his film "Everything Is Illuminated." When Schreiber's new production assistant gripes about doing gofer's work and proclaims George W. Bush a hero, things begin to go downhill on set. An incredible documentary about Hollywood, war, and good intentions gone haywire."
  • "In the wake of "Operation Iraqi Freedom," Davenport follows, and becomes involved with, American actor Schreiber's effort to bring an Iraqi film student whose school was bombed to Hollywood, although the good intentions and cultural gaps lead to more predicaments."@en
  • ""In the wake of Operation Iraqi Freedom, American actor Liev Schreiber had an idealistic notion : to rescue an Iraqi film student from the rubble of his country and bring him to the West to intern on a Hollywood movie ('Everything Is illuminated). It promised to be a heartwarming tale, a small victory out of the troubled mission of the U.S. war in Iraq. But as in the war itself, good intentions yielded unintended consequences, and even this operation doesn't go according to plan. Director Nina Davenport becomes personally involved in Schreiber's charitable effort, and soon finds herself embroiled in a complex moral quagmire and all-consuming power struggle between filmmaker and subject""@en
  • ""Touched by the plight of an aspiring Iraqi filmmaker whose dreams of working in Hollywood seemed to fall with Baghdad, American filmmaker Liev Schreiber invites the ambitious wannabe director to intern on Everything Is Illuminated, to unexpected results. In 2004, just one year after the United States launched a devastating attack on Baghdad, MTV ran a story about a 25-year-old Iraqi film student named Muthana Mohmed, who remained determined not to let the strife that consumed his country consume his dreams as well. At the time, American actor Schreiber was preparing to make his directorial debut with the film Everything Is Illuminated. After seeing the documentary on television, Schreiber was consumed by guilt for having so many amazing opportunities in the film industry and determined to give Mohmed the chance of a lifetime by inviting him to join the production of Everything Is Illuminated in the Czech Republic. Common wisdom dictates that "the road to hell is paved with good intentions," however, and as Mohmed attempted to balance the complications of living away from home for the first time with the cultural issues that arise while working with an all-American film crew, the situation quickly began to deteriorate.""@en

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  • "Feature films"@en
  • "Biographical films"@en
  • "Documentary films"
  • "Documentary films"@en
  • "Nonfiction films"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "Biography"@en
  • "DVD-Video discs"@en
  • "Motion pictures"
  • "War films"@en
  • "non fiction"

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