Word: noujaim
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...Jehane Noujaim ’96, famous for her documentary film “Control Room,” which details the Al Jazeera television network, recently organized the first ever Pangea Day, which debuted on May 10. Pangea Day, designed to bring together independent filmmakers from around the world, was hailed as an event to help foster world peace through technology and mutual respect. Before the Day was upon her, FM sat down with this Harvard grad to discuss her fabulous forms of visual diplomacy, her hopes for the film festival, and her plans for the future. 1.Fifteen Minutes...
...Jehane Noujaim?s ?Control Room? got its power from its intimacy. Half the time it?s in the Iraq theater of war with Al Jazeera reporters like the mammothly charming Hassan Ibrahim, who has a respectful running dialogue with Marine Capt. Josh Rushing, a fellow so appealingly earnest in a tough job - explaining the U.S. invasion to journalists - that he would be the hero of any other film. (Rushing resigned his commission this year, joining the Veterans? antiwar brigade Operation Truth and saying of the Administration?s purported evidence of Saddam?s WMDs, ?I felt personally duped.?) In the other...
What's the world's most controversial TV news provider? It's not Fox or CBS. It's al-Jazeera, the subject of the award-winning documentary Control Room, now out on DVD. The disc adds interviews with both critics and employees of the Arabic television network. Director Jehane Noujaim spoke with TIME's Carolina A. Miranda...
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