Friday, February 29, 2008
Interviews of Nina Davenport, director of OPERATION FILMMAKER
Nina Davenport was recently interviewed on The Santa Fe Radio Café (KSFR – Santa Fe Public Radio) and sat down with a reporter from The Strand, the student newspaper of Victoria University in the University of Toronto. She shares her thoughts and impressions on the making of her award-winning documentary, OPERATION FILMMAKER, and its principal character, a young Iraqi film student. The Santa Fe Radio Café (Skip to the second half for Ms. Davenport's interview)The StrandLabels: interview, nina davenport, operation filmmaker, radio
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Icarus Films releasing OPERATION FILMMAKER
Icarus films has acquired the North American distribution rights for Nina Davenport's new film OPERATION FILMMAKER. OPERATION FILMMAKER is the story of how well- intentioned Americans – including the actor/director Liev Schreiber, the producer Peter Saraf, and eventually also Nina herself – intervene in the life of a young Iraqi film student. And how, not surprisingly, nothing goes as planned. After the film's premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, Eric Kohn of indieWIRE wrote that "Davenport's direction is intricate and her editing is sublime," while Gerald Perry of The Boston Phoenix wrote "Not since Luis Buñuel have we had such a wonderful joke on do-gooder liberalism."
In addition to winning the Grand Jury Prize at the AFI Fest,
OPERATION FILMMAKER has also been honored with a Special Jury Prize at the 2007 Chicago International Film Festival, and the Dutch Film Critics' Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival.
Labels: elijah wood, liev schreiber, new releases, nina davenport
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