Operation Filmmaker 16 years old

Soon after the fall of Baghdad in 2003, a young and charismatic film student, Muthana Mohmed, stands in the rubble of the city's film school and explains to an American television audience that his dream of becoming a filmmaker has been destroyed - first by Saddam Hussein, then by American bombs. This brief, fortuitous appearance on MTV changes Muthana's life forever. Watching in the United States, actor/director Liev Schreiber stops channel surfing, utterly captivated. Feeling guilty about a war he opposed, Schreiber decides to extend to the unknown Iraqi the opportunity of a lifetime - to come to Prague to work on an American movie, Everything Is Illuminated. On set, frustrated expectations complicate the relationship between Muthana and his American benefactors in what becomes a cross-cultural endeavor gone awry. Filmmaker Nina Davenport becomes increasingly entangled in the young Iraqi's life as his visa is about to expire and the threat of returning to Baghdad looms...

Credits

Dwayne Johnson as

Liev Schreiber as Himself

Elijah Wood as Himself

Doug Jones as Himself

Eugene Hütz as Himself

Peter Saraf as Himself

Operation Filmmaker Cast

Name	Character
Dwayne Johnson He was 35, now 52 years old
Liev Schreiber He was 40, now 57 years old	as Himself
Elijah Wood He was 27, now 43 years old	as Himself
Doug Jones He was 47, now 64 years old	as Himself
Eugene Hütz He was 35, now 52 years old	as Himself
Peter Saraf He was 8, now 24 years old	as Himself
Hedwig Herzog	as Herself
Muthana Mohmed	as Himself
Steven Chinni	as Himself
Alberto Bonilla	as Himself
Nina Davenport	as Herself

Operation Filmmaker Crew

Name	Department
Sheldon Mirowitz as Music.	Sound
Kristine Pregot as Producer.	Production
David Schisgall as Producer.	Production
Nina Davenport as Director.	Directing
Nina Davenport as Producer.	Production
Nina Davenport as Writer.	Writing

Operation Filmmaker (16 years)

Release day: Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Runtime: 92 minutes