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. Operation Filmmaker is an engaging, sometimes comical political parable, taking the viewer on a riveting ride from Baghdad to Hollywood.

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June 2007 Her films have divided Iran, led to her arrest and seen her charged with four crimes that carry the death penalty. But Iranian filmmaker Tehmineh Milani refuses to be silenced. "She focuses on women's rights and shows things the way they are", states a fan. Milani's latest film, 'Payback', is her most contentious to date. It's about four women who meet in prison and form a vigilante gang, posing as prostitutes and handing out their own brand of justice to men. "I wrote the story but the characters are based on real people", Milani states. Although Milani is Iran's most commercially successful director, filmmaking for her is about much more than making money. As she explains: "I think I have an ability to make a positive cultural change".

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The Cooper Temple Clause - Film Maker

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My girlfriend and I have just got together and now I am making a feature film entirely on my own, from acting to best-boy, and this is the first time you will be able to witness the struggles and set backs, highs and lows of one man fighting to make a feature film entirely on his own! I am a filmmaker and so this is my passion, but this project will require me to leave home and venture out into the wilderness. My girlfriend has agreed to film the whole process - and this is the beginning.... Blog one. XX PLEASE READ XX My girlfriend is NOT helping me make the film by filming me. She is filming these video blogs - if she was, then I wouldn't be making a feature film entirely on my own. :-) __ oscars cannes filmmaking sundance raindance best film crazy man

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► http://www.SamHarris.com/FF PART TWO of TWO! Part 1: http://youtube.com/watch?v=F4fhSmAieAo Sam continues his conversation with YouTube Diva, Lisa Nova! Lisa Donovan is making a name for herself in many ways. She talks about the fun she has had with friends like Jordan Peele from MADtv, Jenna Elfman from Dharma & Greg, as well as her brother and boyfriend. What she really wants to do is Direct! ... just like her Dad. "Comfort the disturbed, and disturb the comfortable!" Lisa is an American actress and writer. Her self-produced comedic short films, published under the username LisaNova, are among the most viewed videos on YouTube. Donovan was a student at the University of Colorado at Boulder before moving to Los Angeles, California hoping to become an actress. There she founded Zappin Productions, a production company specializing in viral videos. Donovan uploaded her first video, "Introducing LisaNova", to YouTube in 2006. She has parodied a number of celebrities and public figures, including George W. Bush, Keira Knightley, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Lindsay Lohan, among others. Her most popular video is a commercial parody entitled "Dumb Water". Currently LisaNova is the 9th most subscribed YouTube Partner nearing 100,000 subscribers. On July 10, 2007 Donovan posted a video titled "LisaNova does YOUTUBE!", in which she kidnaps prominent YouTube users and forces them to comment to her subscribers, a reference to wide accusations that she has used bots to send thousands of messages to other YouTube users and created hundreds of fake YouTube accounts for publicity. The video received millions of views. Lisa was given a featured player role on MADtv in February of 2007. She debuted in a spoof of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, where she played Salma Hayek, the producer of the ABC Comedy Ugly Betty. For more of Lisa, please visit: http://www.youtube.com/LisaNova and http://www.youtube.com/lonesomerhodes1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWecyEpVoR4 -------------------------------------- Lisa is a judge in the War On War video contest!... Sam Harris WAR ON WAR Music Video Contest! More information at: http://www.WarOnWar.INFO ► Over $5000 in CASH and PRIZES! Simply make a music video to Sam's new single, "War On War" and upload to YouTube! Get the FREE MP3 to listen or add to your iPod: http://www.WarOnWar.INFO Official WAR ON WAR YouTube GROUP!: http://www.youtube.com/group/waronwar The Panel of Judges include: YUSUF ISLAM (CAT STEVENS) LIZA MINNELLI FRANK LANGELLA CYNDI LAUPER STEVEN WEBER VICTOR GARBER BRIDGET MOYNAHAN JASON ALEXANDER LIZZY CAPLAN NICOLE SULLIVAN JUDITH LIGHT CANDI MILO BRUCE VILANCH ALLEE WILLIS DAVID CRANE JEFFREY KLARIK MICHAEL ORLAND MICHAEL BUCKLEY LISA DONOVAN CORY WILLIAMS JAYEL AHERAM ... and more! For the full list of Judges, visit: http://samharris.com/waronwar -------------------------------------- ► http://AskSamHarris.com ... ask Sam anything, and he'll reply via a vlog. ► http://SamHarris.com/answers ... answer link from the "Ask Sam Harris" series. ► http://MySpace.com/SamHarrisMusic ... keep up to date, and be Sam's MySpace friend! ► http://SamTUNES.net ... to download Sam Harris songs and full albums. ► http://SamHarris.com ... information, biography, discography and buy cds. LEGAL & BUSINESS CONTACT: http://SamHarris.com/contact.htm © All videos property of Sam Harris --

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A short film produced to showcase Namibia as a safe and versatile location for filmmakers,for more info visit www.namibiatourism.com.na

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Farming today is not what we may imagine it to be. It's become largely an industrial process, and corn epitomizes this shift in production methods. In Part 3, 'King Corn' filmmaker Curt Ellis shares his experience growing an acre of corn in Iowa, and what it was like for him and his partner. Surprisingly, the growing of 10,000 pounds of corn in one season was the easiest part of the whole farming experience. The other parts were more mundane, and more disappointing.

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Part 1: A conversation with filmmaker Curt Ellis about his new documentary "King Corn", the film that may open eyes across America. Surprisingly, corn is present in some form or another, in almost everything on the American plate. And, none more so, than through the food ingredient "high fructose corn syrup" (HFCS). Is it a good idea to have "HFCS" present in so many of our foods without prior public debate, or adequate science to measure its impact on the long-term health of adults, and especially our children? Should our standard meals be unnaturally skewed toward a corn based diet, in the first place? This interview, along with video clips from the documentary, may not provide the answers here, but it's a good beginning for further thought and reflection. What do you think?

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Jason Kohn talks about his film MANDA BALA (Documentary Competition).

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Indy Mogul talks with director Matthew Lessner about "By Modern Measure". Later Erik catches up with a young aspiring filmmaker and still can't tell the difference between an Elk and a Moose.

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Continuing the conversation, Curt Ellis shares his story about the pervasiveness of corn in our daily foods. We learn that for the first time in human history, the problem of obesity is associated with poverty, not affluence. The processed foods that saturate the market with cheap food products is the chief culprit. Do you feel it's time for a change?

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http://www.sundancechannel.com/festival Interview with RAWSON MARSHALL THURBER, director of THE MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH.

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http://www.sundancechannel.com/festival Interview with STANLEY TUCCI, director of BLIND DATE.

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See clips uncensored by Yahoo http://video.yahoo.com/search/?p=don+askarian Order DVD via donfilm@yahoo.com Don Askarian. Most important Armenian Filmmaker about love,ideology, movie making. Art Documentary Interview Filmmaking Reel trailer About his films see http://www.don-askarian.am Don Askarian http://www.splitfilmfestival.hr/arhive/2007/askarian.htm) Don Askarian was born in Stepanakert, Nagorno Karabakh. In 1967 he went to Moscow and studied history and art. He worked as an assistant-director and film critic for a year after his study. In 1975-1977 Don Askarian was imprisoned. In 1978 he emigrated from USSR to West Berlin. For the last 25 years he has lived and worked in Germany, The Netherlands and in Armenia, where he founded his own film companies. He is a prize-winner at several international film festivals. In 1996 Don Askarian published his book "The Dangerous Light". Every year the interest to his really very unique films grow up. More and more film festivals come to honor Don Askarian with retrospectives. Serious TV-stations like ARD, WDR, ZDF, Channel 4, Arte, but also Belgian, Greek, Swiss, Slovakian, Armenian etc. TV Channels are constant co-producers and buyers of all his films. The films of Don Askarian were sold and broadcasted world wide about 80 times. Don Askarian, honored with a Harvard Film Archive retrospective, is considered the greatest Armenian filmmaker (but he is Russian-German- Dutch too). In 2004 he received Golden Camera Award for Life Achievement at Int. ART Film Festival, Slovakia. It turns out to be clearer what Hans-Werner Dannowski, the president of Interfilm, meant in 1992: "Time will pass until we recognize that Don Askarian is one of the most important filmmakers of our times. His movies will take up the time they need. Finally the films will have their success not with lies and assimilations but with truth." The retrospectives and special screenings around the world, on TV and important film festivals reflect it, mirror the growing interest in Don Askarian's films followed by a broad fascination by the audience. Michelandgelo Anonioni Mizoguchi Kenji Andrei Tarkovsky Ingmar Bergman Akira Kurosawa Luis Buñuel Dusan Makavejev Karlos Saura Carl Theodor Dreyer Federico Fellini Sergei Paradjanov Jean-Luc Godard(Out of Breath)Spike Lee Jim Jarmusch(first movies) otar iosseliani(early films)Jean Vigo Pier Paolo Pasolini Robert Bresson Actors Toshiro Mifune Monica Vitti. For Afghanistan -- Albania Algeria American Angola -- Antigua and Barbuda Armenia -- Republic of Armenia Australia Azerbaijan Bahrain Barbados Belarus Belgium Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Brazil Bulgaria Republic of Bulgaria Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Central African Republic Chad Chile China, Colombia Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Denmark Egypt El Salvador Eritrea Estonia Finland France -- Georgia Germany Greece -Hong Kong China Hungary India Indonesia Iran Iraq ireland Israel Italy Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan -- Kyrgyz Latvia -- Republic of Latvia Lebanon -- Liberia -- Republic of Liberia Libya -- Lithuania -- Macedonia, Republic of -- Republic of Macedonia Madagascar Malaysia Malta Mexico Monaco Mongolia Morocco Karabakh Nagorno Karabakh Namibia Netherlands Netherlands Antilles (Self-governing country in the Kingdom of newZealand arab Nicaragua Nigeria Oman sultanate of Oman Pakistan -- Islamic Republic of Pakistan Palestine Panama Peru Philippines Portugal -- Qatar Romania Russia Saudi Arabia Serbia Republic of Serbia Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Somalia South Africa spain Sri Lanka -- Sudan Sweden Switzerland Syria Tajikistan Tanzania -- Thailand See East Timor Turkey Turkmenistan Turks Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom Great Britain and Northern Ireland United States America Uzbekistan Vatican City Venezuela Vietnam , British Shakeela

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http://www.myspace.com/matthewwriting Please Subscribe. My name is Matt Brown and this is a montage consisting of my writing, directing, cinematography, editing, sound design, and lighting. I'm still in school, but I'm extremely passionate and getting to be very knowledgeable on the filmmaking process. I'm going into screenwriting and create massive amounts of short films and experiments on the side to stay at the top of my game until I get the resources to make my innovative feature script into an actual movie. Thanks for watching! Any comments would be cool. Sorry about the quality. Music: Hans Zimmer

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Video clips from groundbreaking arctic underwater director and marine biologist Adam Ravetch. Co-director of movie Arctic Tale. For more info visit http://www.arctictale.com

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This Video Clip Was Produced, Shot & Edited By Carl Weston For Mass Appeal Tv/Mass Appeal Magazine Last week I(Carl Weston) sat down & had a chat with guerrilla filmmaker/ renegade music video director Rik Cordero of Three/21 Films. Dude is the best underground hip hop music video director working right now..

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http://www.sundancechannel.com/festival Interview with CLARK GREGG, director of CHOKE.

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John Pilger - author journalist and film maker speaks at an antiwar rally at Socialism 2007: Socialism for the 21st Century conference in Chicsgo. June 16, 2007 Filmed by Paul Hubbard

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Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHqSA9Zpa5E PPPFM01

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Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usXuHNUqRvE PPPFM02

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An intriguing interview with the producer, director of the award-winning movie, What The Bleep Do We Know? In this episode, William Arntz discusses the ways in which new ideas in science and quantum physics, and many long-held beliefs behind spirituality and religion are now merging, and how that converging of new science with age-old beliefs, would inspire producer, director, William Arntz to co-create the films,"What The Bleep Do We Know!? and "What The Bleep!? Down The Rabbit Hole." This episode, with host Alison Hill, first aired on PBS affiliate KBDI-Channel 12, Denver, Colorado 2006 / LostArtsProductions.com

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tonight to talk about his new movie Iraq for Sale and the egregious war profiteering of Halliburton and subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root in Iraq. Keith starts the segment off by reporting on the story of Ray Stannard — the Halliburton employee wounded in a convoy attack in Iraq who was offered the Defense of Freedom Medal on the condition that sign away his right to sue Halliburton.

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Chris Gomersall, the director of QUEENS FOR A NIGHT, appears on the now-defunct Jenny Jones Show to promote his film. To purchase this film, go to http://www.upstairsmedia.com/umistore.html

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