Operation Filmmaker

Operation Filmmaker (2007)

  • 90% of critics liked it
    (31 reviews)

  • 75% of users liked it
    (451 ratings)

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… More

Unrated, 1 hr. 32 min.
Directed By
Nina Davenport
Genres
Documentary, Television, Special Interest
In Theaters
Jun 4, 2008 Wide
On DVD
Dec 16, 2008
Icarus Films

Critic Reviews

  • Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter

    What might have been a vanity project emerges as a surprisingly complicated morality tale.

  • Ty Burr, Boston Globe

    Everyone here comes out smelling bad -- that's why the film's so good.

  • Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

    This gut punch of a documentary will knock you for a loop.

  • Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

    An exit strategy in Iraq? This self-aware study shows how hard it'll be.

  • Lou Lumenick, New York Post

    A ruefully funny cautionary tale about cross-cultural tone-deafness.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • William G


    Fascinating doc on a fledgling filmmaker squandering opportunity and stranded by global politics.

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