Operation Filmmaker

Do-gooder intentions go disastrously wrong when Hollywood gives a young Iraqi film student the chance of a lifetime. Operation Filmmaker tells the fascinating and riveting story of Muthana's odyssey in the West, with uncanny parallels to America's recent misadventures abroad.

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Operation Filmmaker will be broadcast on PBS on Independent Lens in their 2008-2009 season

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"Fascinatingly complicated ... encapsulates the entire situation between America and Iraq."
— Wesley Morris, The Boston Globe

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Toronto International Film Festival

GRAND JURY PRIZE FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY
AFI Fest

JURY AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Florida Film Festival

SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
Chicago International Film Festival

DUTCH FILM CRITICS AWARD
Rotterdam International Film Festival