the boys from baghdad high , also known as baghdad high , is a british-american-french television documentary film .

it was first shown in the united kingdom at the 2007 sheffield doc/fest , before airing on bbc two on 8 january 2008 .

it also aired in many other countries including france , australia , the united states , canada , germany and the netherlands .

it documents the lives of four iraqi schoolboys of different religious or ethnic backgrounds over the course of one year in the form of a video diary .

the documentary was filmed by the boys themselves , who were given video cameras for the project .

directed and produced by ivan o'mahoney and laura winter of renegade pictures and storylabtv , for the united kingdom 's bbc , hbo in the united states , and the franco-german network arte , the boys from baghdad high was produced by alan hayling and karen o'connor for the bbc , hans robert eisenhauer for arte , and sheila nevins for hbo .

the boys from baghdad high received high viewership when it initially aired in the uk , and was reviewed favourably in the media .

it was named the best news and current affairs film at the european independent film festival , won the premier prize at the sandford st. martin trust awards , and was nominated for awards at two film festivals .

the documentary also received the radio times readers award , and a nomination for the amnesty international 2008 television documentary and docudrama uk media award .

the boys from baghdad high

the boys from baghdad high is a movie starring hayder khalid , mohammad raed , and anmar refat . four students from different religious backgrounds in baghdad document their final year in high school .
this world : the boys from baghdad high will be broadcast on tuesday 8 january 2007 at 2100 gmt on bbc two .
four students from different religious backgrounds in baghdad document their final year in high school .
bbc2 documentary the boys from baghdad high has won the premier prize at today ' s sandford st martin trust religious radio and tv awards .
baghdad high combines the video diaries of four iraqi teen boys during their 2006 - 07 senior year in the violence - fraught capital . the boys are religiously diverse “sons of mesopotamia” who look…
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when i sat down to watch ivan o ' mahoney and laura winter ' s baghdad high – the boys of baghdad high in the united kingdom , where it was initially shown – i didn ' t know what to expect .
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mr . ali (
baghdad high
) : yeah , i ' m here .
winter gave the baghdad high school students personal video cameras with instructions to film the 2006 - 07 school year .
the boys were instructed not to endanger themselves by filming at sites of violence , but the movie nonetheless has moments of high tension .
ali , hayder , anmar and mohammed all attend baghdad ' s tariq bin ziad high school for boys . like students at any high school , they joke around , play soccer , listen to tupac shakur , and try to study .
but instead of dispatching camera crews to tail her subjects , winter let the teenagers film
baghdad high
themselves .
john f . burns and iraqi employees of the new york times contributed reporting from baghdad for this article , christine hauser contributed from mosul , and edward wong from najaf .
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it’s back to school time . . . and a group of 17 - year - old boys are returning to the classroom for their last year in high school in the world’s most dangerous city—baghdad .
the director of the series , ivan o’mahoney , an award - winning dutch journalist whose hbo documentary “the boys from baghdad high” chronicled the lives of iraqi teenagers during the worst of the violence convulsing that country in 2006 , hopes the project may bring balance back to the debate .
rescued thai cave boys face a lifetime of trauma from their ordeal as traumatic memories could trigger fear . . .
as the city is torn apart by sectarian violence , the film follows their friendships to see whether they can survive . filmed by the four students themselves during the 2006 / 07 academic year , the boys from baghdad high offers a unique insight into ordinary iraqi lives .
sandford st martin trust ' s judging panel , chaired by former bbc head of religious broadcasting colin morris , said of the boys from baghdad high :
in this programme we saw the way faith breaks into secular life in the chaos of present day iraq .
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the boys nod in agreement but in baghdad , the violence creeps in , affecting every aspect of life . it is difficult to concentrate on studying .
before a game held at the neutral site of barringer high school , shabazz high football coach darnell grant watches his team stretch prior to a game against east side high school . shabazz won the game , 37 - 8 .
baghdad has become one of the world ' s most dangerous cities , but on the first day of term at tariq bin ziad high school for boys , ali and his 17 - year - old friends have other concerns .
coming from different ethnic and religious backgrounds the boys showed that despite the war their daily preoccupations were much the same as those of teenage boys the world over – girlfriends , parents , sport , fashion , exams , music .
that is so sad . . . i feel so sorry for these boys .
if you think high school student dramas are played out , hbo’s planning to prove you wrong . tonight , they’ll showcase a class clown , an aspiring musician , a sports stud , and a lovelorn teen . but these aren’t your average high school teens—these are students of baghdad high .
' baghdad high ' depicts teen lives defined by war a new documentary features the stories of four boys in their senior year of high school in baghdad . the students — one kurdish , one christian , one shia and one mixed sunni and shia — shot footage of their families , friends and teachers to craft the documentary , a portrait of adolescence in a time of war .
and it ' s a very interesting glimpse into the life of these teenage boys in baghdad . thanks so much for joining us this afternoon . laura winter is the co - director of
baghdad high .
and we were joined also by ali , one of the teens who is featured in the film .
sifting through the footage from the eight original participants , o ' mahoney and winter settled on the four most engaging narratives . some of the boys , it turned out , were more inclined to introspection , and these were the boys the directors wanted : the ones who could give voice to the aura of anxiety that hangs over baghdad .
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i hope these demented pedophiles burn in hell . those boys have been indelibly harmed .
several explosions broke out across baghdad on sunday morning , especially in the southwestern section of the city . american attack helicopters circled over the city center , and the roar of fighter jets could be heard from high above .
and so i asked him , well , where did you go to high school ? and he said , well , i went to tariq bin ziad high school for boys . and so i sent somebody there to go track down the principle of the school . and a wonderful relationship began from there .
ms . laura winter ( co - director ,
baghdad high
) : thank you . i ' m very happy to be here .
alex dimitriades and aden young star in the principal , a dramatic story of intrigue set against the backdrop of a boys’ high school in turmoil in south west sydney . picture : sbs
darius has another one of his episodes , and the boys struggle with helping him cool off .
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boys attend a mass during easter celebrations at sacred heart catholic church in baghdad march 23 , 2008 . ( reuters / thaier al - sudani ) march 24 , 2008
back to school . . . alex dimitriades and aden young star in the principal , a dramatic story of intrigue set against the backdrop of a boys’ high school in turmoil in south west sydney .
so instead , winter and o ' mahoney arrived at the idea of giving cameras to a group of students at tariq bin ziad high school in baghdad . working remotely – they were not in iraq during filming – the directors arranged to have eight boys trained in filmmaking .
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but the greate prize was accorded to the boys from baghdad high , an accompte of four schoolboyes facing the difficulties that beset all such , in addition to studying for exams in the midst of cannonades , grenadoes , & ct , who altho’ divided in religione are yet firmly united in friendship — a signe of hope for our fall’n worlde .
peter scarlet , the creative director of the tribeca film festival , says
baghdad high
has an astonishing ability to penetrate a society mostly closed to the western world . the boys don ' t see iraq from the top down . they see it from the inside out , and their lenses follow the seismic – the execution of saddam hussein , for instance , or the implementation of a stifling new curfew – and the quotidian with equal ease .
baghdad high is hbo’s latest in a string of provocative and intimate iraq documentaries . it captures the senior year of four students from different religious and ethnic backgrounds : a kurd , a shia , a sunni , and a christian . as they enter their final year at the tariq bin zaid high school for boys in baghdad , the students are given video recording equipment and a crash course on filming and set out to chronicle their daily lives . the result is a captivating portrayal of a baghdad we rarely see , one that allows the american viewer to put a teenage face on the realities of the war .
a student listens in during parent / faculty night held in the school library at shabazz high .
the film follows four boys - one shiite , one christian , one kurd and one from a mixed sunni - shiite background - into their classrooms and homes .
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the boys spent their senior year in a baghdad high school filming their families , friends and teachers , often using the camera as a confessional for the frustrations of living through a war . today , we talk to one of the directors of the film , and with ali , one of the young men featured in the documentary .
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a cross - sectional study recruiting 1427 ( 46 . 1 % boys versus 53 . 9 % girls ) school aged students ( 6 - 12 years ) from 8 primary schools in baghdad during the period november 2001 to may 2002 . the bp readings were plotted adopting principles of the 1996 american task force on high blood pressure in children and adolescents .
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school boys cover their ears as they sit in a corner during clashes in baghdad ' s sadr city april 15 , 2008 . ( kareem raheem / reuters ) april 19 , 2008
baghdad high ivan o ' mahoney and laura winter © 2004–2018 alt film guide and / or author ( s ) . text not to be reproduced without prior written consent .
baghdad high
has four screenings between april 29 and may 3 at the tribeca film festival . for details , and other festival listings , visit www . tribecafilmfestival . org .
but
baghdad high
also traffics in hope : those unexpected moments when the boys are brought together , regardless of religion or cultural heritage . ali calls this
the times when people can be cool to each other
– when the camera picks up a friendly wrestling match or an uproarious prank .
alex dimitriades has grown up to become the principal of a high school in sbs’s new drama , the principal .
also in the 9pm hour , the second instalment of channel 4 ' s food show hugh ' s chicken run , fronted by hugh fearnley - whittingstall , scooped 3 . 3 million and a 13 % share ; while bbc2 documentary the boys from baghdad high - this world picked up 600 , 000 and a 3 % share between 9pm and 10 . 30pm .
the story of four iraqi boys - who are both friends and class mates - at school in one of the most dangerous cities on earth , baghdad . one boy is kurdish , one christian , one shia and one from a mixed sunni / shia background .
emo is short for “emotional hardcore” and its aesthetic sprang from the american punk music scene in the 1980s and has been remixed in baghdad over the last few years .
conclusion : the unsafe situation in iraq has led to high trauma exposure and a high prevalence rate of ptsd among male adolescents in baghdad . the study explored a number of factors that are associated with this increased rate . the data generated from this study may be of use to policy makers , people work in mental health care as well as practitioners in the field .
' baghdad high ' : ahead of its hbo première on aug . 4 , the documentary about four iraqi teens will air on cinema screens at this year ' s tribeca film festival .
night school andrew cohn’s documentary follows three adults working to earn their high school degrees in indianapolis .
all of iraq ' s high school students must take national exams to graduate . in the months running up to the exams there are two bombings at a baghdad university , killing scores of students .
right now , ask a teenage boy what he likes , and he might say rap music , cell phones , hanging out with friends , talking to his girlfriend . but what if all this takes place against a backdrop of gunfire , kidnappings and car bombs ? in the hbo documentary ,
baghdad high ,
two filmmakers gave video cameras to four teenage boys in baghdad .
this cross sectional study ( with an analytic element ) was conducted in baghdad city ( the capital of iraq ) during the period from february through may 2012 .
baghdad high has reached north america through hbo documentary films and will be airing on monday , august 4 at 9 pm . for more information , check out hbo ' s website .
headmaster raad jawad is acutely aware of how baghdad ' s violence affects morale . right from the opening day assembly he tries to motivate his 600 students .
arriving home at the flamingo , his sleek condo with views of the bay , packouz packed the cone of his volcano , a smokeless electronic bong . as the balloon inflated with vapors from the high - grade weed , he took a deep toke and felt the pressures of the day drift away into a crisp , clean high .
winter can already guess her reaction when she can finally meet one of the boys whose lives she watched for a year .
shot by an iraqi doctor , this film reveals the terrible conditions of an er in baghdad .
in the documentary the boys from baghdad high - this world , ivan o ' mahoney and laura winter had overcome what one imagines must have been fairly substantial obstacles to put together a collective video diary about life as a teenager in iraq . like mistresses , it was built around the tribulations and hopes of four friends . unlike mistresses , its storyline was governed not by a tick - list of stock narrative dilemmas and secrets but the cruel uncertainties that occupation and insurgency have brought to baghdad .
views the current war in iraq through the eyes of four iraqi teens as they enter their senior year of high school . filmed by the boys themselves , the documentary follows their friendships during the entire academic year and offers unique insight into ordinary adolescent iraqi lives .
johnny burke learned his craft at cinecontact productions under the guidance of renowned observational filmmakers such as sean mcallister and kim longinotto . johnny spent the next ten years editing documentary films for broadcast , including boys from baghdad high ( 2007 ) , the yes men fix the world ( 2009 ) . in 2009 he began to broaden his skills into producing , and directed his own short and mid - length films .
baghdad high is a documentary about four baghdad male youths entering their final year of high school . they have each been given cameras and asked to document their experiences . the year is 2006 , which was a grueling time for iraq . in october ' 06 , the month they began school , 2 , 722 iraqis were killed – most of them because of their ethnicity and / or religious backgrounds .
a new documentary from filmmaker laura winter , which premieres tuesday at the tribeca film festival , takes a look at life in baghdad through the eyes of four young men .
methods : a sample of 1858 male students , aged 13 to 19 years , was selected from 18 secondary schools for boys in baghdad . the arabic version of the international neuropsychiatric interview ptsd module ‘i’ ( m . i . n . i ) was adopted to assess the presence of ptsd symptoms .
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baghdad high covers a period of about one year , from fall to summer , the beginning and end of their final year of high school . it is separated by short intertitles giving bits of information , and the rest is narrated either visually or orally by the boys ' handheld digital cameras . the cameras , in fact , become a part of the boys ' personalities , as they need them as outlets for their ever - rising emotions and worries . the cameras aren ' t just objects – they are us , the viewers to whom they are speaking . the teenagers are fully aware of their audience and are eager for us to both see and get to know them .
frantic parents of rescued thai cave boys have not been told which children have been saved – as teammates . . .
qasim muhammad saleh , 45 , walking with his two sons , sajad , 5 , and jowid , 12 , had just come from voting at lebanon high school . the boys were carrying iraqi flags , and mr . saleh ' s right index finger carried the ink marks showing he had cast his ballot .
students attend class in a high school for boys in baghdad april 15 , 2008 . violence , a collapse of school infrastructure and the mass displacement of both pupils and teachers have turned many of iraq ' s schools into fetid overcrowded ruins , jeopardising the futures of millions of children . ( reuters / ceerwan aziz ) april 22 , 2008
grant smiled from the back of the room .
that ' s my line ,
he said .
he stole that from me .
but over the past month , threatening letters began appearing in shiite neighborhoods across baghdad , residents said .
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malcolm x . shabazz football coach damon harrison talks to player michael reed away from the field during a game against orange high school in orange . shabazz won the game , 30 - 14 .
running back and team captain al - rasheed benton leads stretching drills at the shabazz high school athletic facility in newark .
a mural in the courtyard near the cafeteria shows school pride at shabazz high in newark . support for the athletics program is ingrained in the community .
the university of baghdad was established in 1956 thereby absorbing mustansiriya university that dates from the year 1233 , and is depicted here . it was seriously damaged during military occupations and by rioting students in 2007 , from which trauma it is still recovering .
baghdad ,
said cyrus harbin , grant ' s best friend , the football team ' s defensive coordinator and a permanent substitute teacher assigned to the discipline office .
year one was baghdad .
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the boys filmed themselves , and like boys anywhere , they honed in on the inconsequential : learning the lyrics of an internet download , playing football , whether you can conceal the mouse in your bedroom from a mother determined to exterminate it . the mortal realities of baghdad kept interrupting though - the lights suddenly going out or a burst of gunfire rattling in the night - and even the boys ' banter was stained by recent history :
if chemical ali really wanted to destroy the north , all he had to do was fire a rocket with mohamed ' s socks in them ,
said a boy teasing his friend .
and go back to where you came from will continue to explore australia’s changing views of asylum seekers , taking participants to war - torn countries syria and baghdad .
the women’s balcony this comedy from israel concerns the actual and physical fallout after a synagogue balcony where women are separated from men buckles during a bar mitzvah .
there you go , a genuine open invite to come and see a day in the life of baghdad .
in those days , i tried to understand the doctrine that everyone suffers from something different and that degrees of suffering are relative to one ' s own surroundings . this belief is supposed to allow an individual to both forgive and forget his suffering . baghdad high , however , does not allow one to forgive or forget . that ' s not because the film offers an overly violent and traumatic look at the teenagers ' lives ; in fact , it ' s because baghdad high does the very opposite . it shows a background of unrelenting violence while the boys ' continue living their lives . that approach makes whatever muddy waters we run through seem like clear spring streams .
iraqi boys sit next to concrete house ' s fence which was hit by a projectile during a us military raid in baghdad ' s sabaa ' qusur area . ( afp / wissam al - okaili ) march 13 , 2008
iraqi boys sit next to concrete house ' s fence which was hit by a projectile during a us military raid in baghdad ' s sabaa ' qusur area . ( afp / wissam al - okaili ) march 12 , 2008
but the 17 - year - old boys are a tight group of friends - regardless of their different religious , ethnic and economic backgrounds .
young boys have always been preyed on by adults , the same way young girls have been . it ' s called
pedophilia
.
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final four thai cave boys and coach are in ' good health ' but must remain trapped underground for at least . . .
somewhere in the reality space between the latest news of horrific suicide bombings in baghdad and the theatrical release last week of the slick , nonfiction high school movie american teen lies the hbo documentary baghdad high , airing monday . in 2006 , four iraqi teens were given cameras so they could record their senior year , after which producer - directors ivan o’mahoney and laura winter oversaw the shaping of the hundreds of hours of footage into a finished film . that this quartet of baghdad boys are from different ethno - religious backgrounds — shia , sunni , kurdish and christian — is a tantalizing setup , until you quickly realize that these labels don’t appear to affect their easygoing friendship with each other , their love of western icons like beckham and britney , or make much difference when , as one kid points out , anyone venturing onto the streets of baghdad could become the victim of a stray bullet or a roadside bomb or a kidnapping .
neary : we ' re talking about the documentary
baghdad high .
if you ' ve any questions about what life is like for a teenager in baghdad , any questions for the filmmaker , give us a call . the number here in washington is 800 - 989 - 8255 . and our email address is talk @ npr . org .
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a group of gay iraqis in baghdad , who feared being identified , said they faced daily harassment .
the four friends chat excitedly in the schoolyard at tariq bin ziad high school for boys . they have a lot to talk about : girls , britney spears , who has the best ripped jeans and who’s hair is the spikiest or is a disaster . it seems pretty normal , but it isn’t .
dubai : four indian boys in dubai , who recently won international accolades in different fields , were honoured by their school on tuesday .
a policeman places barb wires to barricade a road in baghdad april 9 , 2008 . the fifth anniversary of the fall of baghdad was marked with a curfew and continuing violence . ( reuters / mohammed ameen ) april 09 , 2008
from left , will ferrell , amy poehler and jason mantzoukas in “the house . ”
the son of a photojournalist , qamar took inspiration from his father and began taking photos of u . s . troops from his window at the tender age of four .
letters from baghdad nicole kidman just played the british adventurer gertrude bell , known to many as the female lawrence of arabia , in a biopic from werner herzog . now bell is the subject of a documentary that draws on century - old footage and bell’s own letters . tilda swinton narrates .
the fact that the kids are all from different backgrounds , and yet remained friends as their city was torn to bits by sectarian violence , was one of the most satisfying parts of making baghdad high ,
states laura winter .
it filled us with great hope for iraq ' s future - and maybe ours , too .
an iraqi girl enjoys a slide in the zawraa park in central baghdad , iraq , friday , jan . 25 , 2008 . baghdad remains under curfew every friday . ( ap photo / khalid mohammed ) january 26 , 2008
the dancing boys of afghanistan exposes the horrific practice called bacha bazi , in which young afghan boys are sold to warlords and powerful businessmen to be trained as dancers who perform for male audiences in women ' s clothing and are then used and traded for sex . the practice is sadly making a comeback in that country .
so with no support from the west , murad and emin need all the help they can get .
there is a need to bring experts from abroad to train secondary teachers , because the local trainers have been isolated from international developments and are in need for modernizing .
they drink , they eat , they gossip , leave a nice tip for the waiter then they leave for the next baghdad hotspot .
fear has rippled across socially liberal niches of baghdad , from the basement - level clothing shops where teenage boys buy skull pendants and skater gear , to upscale hair salons and theaters . advocates say some emo youths and gay men have left for northern iraq , while others have shorn off hairdos or muted outfits that were once badges of identity .
baghdad high provides a clear window from our living rooms into the homes and classrooms of those struggling to survive a war - torn baghdad . during its most personal moments , the film’s “home video” style allows the boys to share their dreams and tragedies directly with the audience without interference . rarely does an american audience have such unfettered access into the true , everyday lives of iraqis . by the end , this touching documentary makes a powerful social comment on the value of war and the burden it places on common people , leaving the audience to reconsider the utility of war as an option in settling conflict . ultimately these four iraqi teens have taken a crucial step toward closing the gap between “us” and “them . ”
children attend the celebration of arab orphan day , which falls during the first week of april , in an orphanage in baghdad april 6 , 2008 . the celebration was sponsored by the red crescent organization in baghdad . ( reuters / mahmoud raouf mahmoud ) april 06 , 2008
a iraqi union demonstrator displays posters during a march in baghdad april 12 , 2008 demanding the withdrawal of u . s . soldiers from iraq . ( reuters / mahmoud raouf mahmoud ) april 12 , 2008
he had started playing football at john f . kennedy high and realized it was an acceptable excuse in his neighborhood for staying off the streets .
by the time ali departs for the north , nearly a quarter of his school ' s 600 students and their families have fled baghdad .
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this juxtaposition – between the foreign and the familiar – forms the heart of the documentary that has its american première at the tribeca film festival in new york this week . unlike the flood of iraq - related films spilling into the marketplace ,
baghdad high
does not take the long view . it is filmed close - up , in jittery autobiographical asides and teary confessionals , by four boys – a christian , a kurd , a shiite , and a sunni – trapped in a war zone .
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who knew ? the 2002 hbo movie live from baghdad chronicled cnn’s groundbreaking coverage . the film focused on producer robert wiener , played by michael keaton . robert wisdom ( best known as major “bunny” colvin on the wire ) portrayed shaw .
his experiences during the filming , he said , which took him to baghdad , caused “a 180 back flip” in his attitudes .
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the target population was adolescent boys that were collected from secondary schools . central organization for statistics ( 2010 - 2011 ) recorded a total of 5 , 472 secondary schools in iraq with 1 , 953 , 766 enrolled students . in the same academic year , baghdad governorate had 1 , 074 secondary schools , 436 for female students , 532 for males and 106 mixed gender schools . the total number of secondary school students in baghdad was 543 , 450 , including 243 , 670 girls and 299 , 780 boys [ 17 ] . the city of baghdad is divided by tigris river into two major parts ; russafa to the east and karkh to the west . each part has three educational directorates . a simple random sampling technique was adopted for this study through choosing three secondary schools ( for boys ) from each directorate . the researchers considered including different residential sectors to insure the inclusion of different socio economic strata ( elite , public , and suburban ) to make the sample more representative and to avoid confounding the results by the socio economic status . consequently , nine schools from each side of baghdad city ( forming a total of 18 secondary schools ) were included . secondary schools in iraq usually include six grades and the students’ spectrum of age is between 13 - 18 years . three classes ( using a simple random sampling technique ) were chosen from each school ( first , third and fifth grades ) to include a wide spectrum that represent the targeted age group . all the students in the chosen classes were included in the study yielding a total sample of 1858 boys out of 9100 students enrolled in these schools .
newark — the buses were quiet and dark as they rolled home toward newark ' s south ward . inside , rows of bruised , muddy football players from malcolm x shabazz high school said nothing . the only sounds were sniffles and muffled crying .
if you have questions about what life is like for a teen in baghdad , give us a call . our number here in washington is 800 - 989 - 8255 , and our email address is talk @ npr . org . and you can comment on our blog at urltoken laura winter is co - director of
baghdad high
and she joins us now from our bureau in new york city . good to have you with us , laura .
the boys meet in school , and then retire to their homes , where they can often hear the crackle of gunfire or smell the acrid smoke that follows a bombing . the cameras are rarely turned off .
an iraqi vendor fries falafel at a market in central baghdad . ( afp / sabah arar ) april 02 , 2008
ivan o’mahoney and laura winter ‘s “ baghdad high ” follows the lives of ordinary iraqis during the war . screening in the world documentary competition at the 2008 tribeca film festival , o’mahoney and winter gave four iraqi high school seniors a digital camera to record a year in the lives . the result is a film that shows how remarkably similar these teenagers’ lives are compared to those in the western world . indiewire talked to both filmmakers about the film and their expectations for its north american premiere at tribeca .
now less , buy more , read less , talk more”… are these the makings of a boy and girl from baghdad ? according to 35 year old istanbulite ayşe , they can be summed up by these eight words .
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baghdad refugee children in a school that their families occupied after leaving their homes due to the ongoing raids by us and iraqi forces into baghdad ' s shiite enclave of sadr city . ( afp / file / ahmad al - rubaye ) april 10 , 2008
in order to encourage young iraqis to get down to the serious business of creating a better future , we adopted a novel approach : help them play . the program at zahra’s school pairs life skills with movement and sport , and is now in 30 baghdad schools , 15 for boys and 15 for girls .
rick continues his journey from the basque country on the atlantic coast , to journey ever eastwards towards the mediterranean sampling local food along the way .
grant hurt for his players , for the school and for the community . the playoff loss at carteret high stung , but this was a lost opportunity in a much bigger fight — the fight for shabazz , a long - shot crusade he and others have taken on to save one of the worst high schools in the country — and to do it starting with sports .
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iraqi girls play in the snow in sulaimaniyah , 160 miles northeast of baghdad , iraq on friday , jan . 11 , 2008 . further south , baghdad residents saw snow for the first time in memory on friday . ( ap photo / yahya ahmed ) january 12 , 2008
a young iraqi boy is treated for wounds in hospital in the shiite enclave of sadr city , baghdad , monday , april 14 , 2008 . the child was injured in ongoing clashes in baghdad ' s sadr city . ( ap photo / karim kadim ) april 14 , 2008
currently filming in sydney , the murder mystery will co - star rectify actor aden young , and reunites dimitriades with his heartbreak high cast mate , salvatore coco .
our study revealed a high prevalence of ptsd among eldest sons in the families ; this may indicate higher psychological demands and responsibilities on the eldest boys that may lead to a high probability of trauma exposure . children and adolescents in iraq usually do not work during school time ; one of the major negative consequences of long - term wars and conflicts is that they lead to severe deprivation and increased poverty rates among iraqi families . young boys have been forced to work exposing them to high risk environment and trauma [ 16 , 29 ] . this is consistent with the current study where there was a higher rate of ptsd among the working group . there is a linear association between ptsd and working during school courses . however surprisingly ; the odds ratio calculation in the current study shows that working during school time is associated with less ptsd . although this seems to be contradictive but it has an intrinsic logic : working boys are more exposed to risks but those who are severely affected by ptsd will possibly not be able to continue working .
name : nichole powers class of : 2004 now living in : holiday fl date : monday , august 30 , 2004 comments : hey everyone , well i didn’t know how hard leaving high school would be for me . but so far in my life the best feeling in the world was walking across that stage . i really miss gulf high but i am in college now and well nothing is the same . if any underclassmen read this i am telling you now make the best of high school .
and ali , i wanted to ask you this , and laura , you can also join in and help him out with this if you like . one thing that was very intenerating is that the boys - you boys seemed to use the camera as a diary , as a way to talk about your feelings about what was going on . is that true ?
follow the journey of three talented young indigenous football players from the red dust ovals of central australia to the hallowed turf of the new adelaide oval .
four teenage boys keep a video diary of their final year at tariq bin ziad high school in baghdad . as violence escalates , they prepare to take the national exams they must pass in june to secure their diploma . amid explosions , gunfire , and power outages , they study , wrestle , play games , listen to music , dance , and talk boy talk . will they pass their exams ? will they live ? bbc this world , and hbo .
over time , when the turkish republic was established , wealthy istanbulites morphed the area with their summerhouses . sadly today it seems the surrounding baghdad area is mutating further into a cluster of high - rise apartment blocks . the ottoman mansions and elite low - level summerhouses are almost all gone and it seems soon they will also be forgotten .
alex dimitriades revisits his heartbreak high years and teams up with aden young for a new drama and geoffrey rush explores his past in sbs’s 2015 lineup .
he is just eight year ' s old but already qamar hashim is far from ordinary .
neary : we are talking with laura winters . she ' s a co - director of
baghdad high ,
which is an hbo documentary , and you are listening to talk of the nation from npr news . i couldn ' t help wondering , laura , as i was watching that , how much editing did you have to do ? how much film did you get ?
abdullah monther ( r ) , 13 years old , stands next to the owner at a shop where they fix and sell vehicle exhaust pipes in arbil , 220 miles north of baghdad , march 1 , 2008 . abdullah , an arabic shi ' ite resident , dropped out from school to work to support his family after they were displaced from their home in baghdad due to sectarian violence in 2006 . ( reuters / ceerwan aziz ) march 4 , 2008
neary : now , what was this experience like for you ? when you boys all got the cameras , you all seemed a little giddy with the power that the camera was giving to you to take pictures .
says ali , one of the boys featured in the film :
the media can ' t show everything that ' s happening [ in iraq ] because there are so many deaths , too many explosions .
moments later , however , away from her hosts , ms . moore stops to reflect into the camera .
on sunday , the iraqi police told the associated press that a suicide bomb attack in western baghdad killed one policeman and wounded several people at a security checkpoint .
a good step by the government indeed . there are lots of other countries from where the imports can h . . .
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quite sad indeed but this practice is quite common in many countries not in shape of dancing boys but similar to it . the biggest problem for this horrible crime is the money , secondly the education and thirdly culture .
during that 2010 - 11 nightmare , the school ' s fire alarm was pulled 119 times and students hurled textbooks from the windows for fun . the school was ranked at or near the bottom in several academic ratings , and only 19 percent of the students were proficient in math , according to high school proficiency assessment testing .
for the conference , two boys involved in the fight — one a shabazz student and the other a student at a newark charter school — sat with their mothers and younger siblings . the mothers cried as they urged their kids to end the disagreement .
an iraqi man sells oranges as a us soldier patrols an area in baghdad . ( afp / jewel samad ) january 16 , 2008
but what can be fake about someone who is fitted with massimo dutti and michael kors ? deniz says the lifestyle and fashion is genuine if you are from this street . if you move to baghdad from the outer suburbs she believes the art of imitation is a sham . she tells me , “fashion is having your own style and this style is being followed by the others . ”
baghdad , iraq , sunday , jan . 30 - iraqis began casting ballots sunday morning in the country ' s first free elections in more than 50 years , and scattered insurgent attacks began soon after , including a car bombing that killed at least one police officer in western baghdad .
in the tribeca catalog , tff artistic director peter scarlet writes that “with moving intimacy , ‘baghdad high’ affords an unprecedented glimpse into the lives of ordinary iraqis attempting to lead ordinary lives in extraordinary circumstances… the kids of [ the film ] open us up to a very different sense of life in iraq than what we’ve been seeing on the nightly news for five years . ”
the ministry said its social police would be sent to investigate “the emo” and added that its forces had also received the authority to go into all of baghdad’s schools to find them .
an iraqi woman shouts slogans demanding the withdrawal of u . s . troops from iraq during a demonstration organized by the independent federation of iraqi trade unions downtown baghdad , saturday , april 12 , 2008 . ( ap photo / hadi mizban ) april 12 , 2008
baghdad high combines the video diaries of four iraqi teen boys during their 2006 - 07 senior year in the violence - fraught capital . the boys are religiously diverse “sons of mesopotamia” who look to pass their national exams while u . s . helicopters patrol overhead , power outages persist , checkpoints must be negotiated every morning , and nighttime walks to a neighbor’s house are a mortal risk . putting the trials of mtv reality - show prima donnas in perspective , the middle - class quartet will be relatable to this bbc / hbo production’s audience in their easy embrace of western kid stuff ( dopey cellphone videos , britney and 2pac as bedroom accompaniment for koran study , “fuck ! ” as an interjection in arabic sentences ) and dealings with generational tensions ( the frustration and anxiety of anguished parents grappling with financial and political hardship and the option of abandoning baghdad , as a quarter of the school’s students do by midyear ) .
from left , jill , vera and thomas sung in “abacus : small enough to jail . ”
beautiful accident in a comedy from china , a lawyer ( gwei lun - mei ) awakes from a car accident to find herself living a life not taken : she’s a housewife and mother .
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killing ground in a thriller from australia , a camping couple encounter an empty tent and a child wandering without his parents . from the trailer , it looks as if they stumbled onto a crime in progress .
a group of 30 volunteers has collected more than 1 , 200 dead bodies from beneath of the rubble of the destroyed city .
there were two main limitations in the current study : first , conducting researches by itself is a risk to the lives of researchers in baghdad , the un - favorite security condition narrows the choices of sample selection making it difficult to choose a house to house method in data collection so we shifted to the secondary schools to collect the targeted age group from there , second ; it is extremely sensitive in iraq ( at the present era ) to survey adolescent girls for such an issue , that’s why the study was limited to boys only .
when cnn anchor bernard shaw flew to iraq to interview saddam hussein , he didn’t intend to make history as a war correspondent . shaw—along with reporters peter arnett and john holliman and producer robert wiener—was in a hotel awaiting a call from hussein’s reps when the deadline for u . n . sanctions passed . war was imminent and the u . s . was going to bomb baghdad . the first tv cable news journalists to cover a war in real time , they broadcast from their hotel room . cnn’s ratings soared and audiences rooted for the “boys of baghdad , ” even as shaw , off - air , feared for his life . as he told viewers at one point , “this feels like we’re in the center of hell . ”
if you watch the documentary you ' ll see that these boys are also killed when they get to be too old to be interesting ( around age 16 ) . also , the families often sell them willingly .
in a country were woman are hidden behind the berqua , young boys take their place , dancing for men as female substitutes . . . a life of sexual slavery and even murdered .
at the arabiya school in the karada district of central baghdad , plastic ballot boxes already had scores of large , folded ballots stacked inside just an hour after voting began .
neary : yeah . now , i know that you are living in the united states now . have you stayed in touch with your friends in baghdad ?


jumbo is a 2008 bollywood animation film directed by kompin kemgumnird , produced by percept picture company and features the voices of akshay kumar , lara dutta , dimple kapadia , rajpal yadav , asrani , gulshan grover , and yuvraj singh.it has yashveer bains as lead role of jumbo .

the film is an official remake/redubbing of the 2006 thai film khan kluay .

the film was dubbed and released in hindi and the creative direction on the hindi film was by mayur puri .

jumbo released worldwide on christmas day 2008 , but was met with poor critical reviews and turned out to be one of the biggest box office disasters of the year .

in 2011 a direct to dvd sequel titled jumbo 2 : the return of the big elephant was released .

kumar was reportedly paid nine crores for the dubbing and two promotional songs .

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oh jumbo junior huh ? jumbo junior . happy birthday a dear a jumbo junior . happy birthday . toooooo * gasp * yoooooou .
well , the hunk is lending his voice to the lead character of the film , an elephant . the jumbo man with a jumbo voice and a jumbo price .
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the film doesn’t work on the emotional level either . you don’t feel the pain when sonia leaves jumbo or when jumbo learns that his children are in danger . nor do you feel elated when jumbo’s family is reunited .
' jumbo 2 ' carries on the story of the lovable blue elephant jumbo who has now become the royal elephant of his kingdom .
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jumbo is a movie starring akshay kumar , lara dutta , and dimple kapadia . jumbo , a young elephant , embarks on a journey to find his father .
jumbo , a young elephant , embarks on a journey to find his father .
jimmy durante , doris day , stephen boyd , martha raye in , jumbo .
cush jumbo has claimed britain is losing some of its most talented actors because of a refusal to embrace diversity in television and film .
' jumbo 2 ' has the makings of a great potential video game but the story is predictable and therefore boring . the sequel to ' jumbo ' , ' jumbo 2 ' carries on the story of the lovable blue elephant jumbo who has now become the royal elephant of his kingdom , leading his prince to victory in several wars .
cush jumbo as lucca quinn in the good fight . photograph : patrick harbron / cbs
jumbo 2 has the trappings of a typical hindi film . there is revenge , romance , emotion and aggression all rolled into one . but there are continuity issues in this film , where suddenly jumbo grows and looks like a royal elephant while in the very next scene , he looks like a timid and relatively small pachyderm .
included as a bonus with the 2005 warner dvd of billy rose ' s jumbo ( 1962 ) .
kitty wonder ( day ) and ‘pop’ wonder ( durante ) take a bow in billy rose’s jumbo .
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patagonia presents jumbo wild - a gripping , hour - long documentary film by sweetgrass productions that tells the true story of the decades - long battle over the future of british columbia ' s iconic jumbo valley and highlights the tension between the protection of wilderness and the backcountry experience and ever - increasing development interests in wild places . set against a backdrop of incredible backcountry ski and snowboard footage , jumbo wild documents all sides of a divisive issue bringing the passionate local fight to protect the jumbo valley to life for the first time .
as i wrote , there is no definitive or singular explanation for what has been marked as the film’s failure . i adore the film and sought to redeem it from the compounded and collusive sense of failure it endured as a result of critical inattentiveness , poor distribution , independent film cronyism , unfortunate programming choices by exhibitors , antiblack racism , or white supremacy . the film failed to be appreciated as an art film , independent film , american film , or black film . furthermore , my focus on the dissociative sense of black performativity that the film enacts was inspired by the cinema , literature , and scholarship on passing because i read the film as a disobedient conception of the politics of passing . i seek out challenging moments of film blackness because they compel a dead reckoning with the impropriety of limits with a dedication to addressing uncommon multitudes .
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as the title suggests , the film revolves around elephant jumbo , who is elephant to the prince of shaktinagar . jumbo falls in love with sonia and they get married , but his royal duties keep him away from her and she returns to her parents . in the midst of this , shauryagadh , an enemy country , is planning an attack on shaktinagar , jumbo has to decide who to watch over – his family and children or his country .
but make no mistake : this is an advocacy film . the environmentalists , the ktunaxa nation , a local hunter and trapper and a grizzly bear scientist present a far more compelling argument for keeping jumbo valley wild . and , thus far , they’ve effectively managed to do that . but the jumbo valley’s fate remains in the balance .
there are no featured audience reviews yet . click the link below to see what others say about billy rose ' s jumbo !
thanks to its creaky and formulaic script , the skeleton key is more mumbo - jumbo than hoodoo and more dull than scary .
at the beginning there is a stage curtain painted to show the elephant jumbo . it portrays him as an african elephant with large ears . the real elephant in the film was an asian elephant with smaller ears .
actor cush jumbo has accused the british television and film industry of “pulling the plug” on actors of colour , and said she repeatedly came up against “the exotic best friend ceiling” when auditioning for roles in the uk .
akki certainly has no stunt scenes in ‘jumbo’ so the exhaustion factor is already out of the scene . so , why 9 crores ?
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but with his latest film , jumbo wild —backed by the clothing company , patagonia—waggoner has reached for , and captured , something else . though the film is as beautiful as his others ( snowy mountains happen to be pretty camera - friendly ) , the subject matter is a bit more serious . at issue : the fate of british columbia’s jumbo valley , the site of a nearly quarter of a century - long battle that pits an italian architect against environmentalists and a first nation tribe .
the jumbo film changing tent is all you ' ll need . gone forever are the fibres on the film from other cloth - based changing solutions . plenty of height too . the only real improvement is to get rid of the aluminium poles and replace them with cf or fibreglass . it is an expensive , but comprehensive , solution .
coming to the first christmas release , ` jumbo ` , the film flattered to deceive , after a quite good opening day . the akshay kumar voiceover animated venture was no match for aamir khan ` s ` ghajini ` and has been totally rejected .
, but lost both roles , to debbie reynolds and julie andrews respectively . the latter film marked a resurgence in popularity for the film musical , but it came three years too late to help
jumbo , who plays lucca quinn in the good wife and its follow - up the good fight , accused britain of ' pulling the plug ' on its talent , adding : ' i would like nothing more than to be working on television and in film in this country .
disney refused all three options , and rko reluctantly issued dumbo , unaltered , as an a - film .
the film’s advocacy should come as no surprise . jumbo wild is the second film financed by patagonia , which is perhaps the world’s greenest major company . since 1985 , patagonia has given away more than $ 70 million to 1 , 500 or so grassroots environmental organizations . all of its products are recyclable and , in more recent years , its supply chains have become completely eco - friendly .
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longo : what resonates from the outset in film blackness is the fact that you resist an investment in the idea of black film along a historiographic model that traces american blackness as represented in cinema from slavery to freedom . i think that this book will be invaluable in shaping a different pedagogy for teaching black film . can you share your vision for where you think the field is going , and what a black film pedagogy could look like ?
jumbo said she was delighted when she read the good wife script because ' it was the first time it hadn ' t specified black or mix race or exotic best friend ' .
bollywood functions in a different way than hollywood . in hollywood the decision to make a sequel is made before the first film is released whereas bollywood first assesses the success of the first film and then makes any further decision .
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' yeah we are stealing their jobs , it ' s because we ' re better and it ' s something to be proud of , ' said jumbo , according to the guardian .
may 24 , 2016 marked a decade since al gore released his original film about global warming - an inconvenient truth .
burns film ctr : met with pace philanthropy & community outreach staff re : enhanced involvement with burns film ctr [ attendee and follow - up involvement ] desc : work with pace staff , dept students / majors , and burns film center to strengthen ties and pace involvement with jfbc . committee ' s key accomplishments : * janet maslin ' s visit / interview on campus april 1 , 2015 . * seven students ( & guests plus myself ) from my spring 2015 film history class attended
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for the information of the fans of akshay kumar and all others , the upcoming jumbo is all set to hit the screens on 18th december 2008 , a week before aamir khan ' s ghajini .
review aggregator website rotten tomatoes reports that 97 % of the critics gave the film a positive review based on 37 reviews .
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jumbo disputed that there was a “brain drain” of british actors of colour deciding to go to america , and said instead that “this country is literally pulling the plug and we are all just slipping through” .
jumbo described the joy when the script for her part as lucca in the good wife came through , and “it was the first time it hadn’t specified black or mix race or exotic best friend . ”
jumbo said that while there had been some improvements in the decade since she graduated , she still encountered young people at drama school made to feel out of place because of their race and their class .
the tomatometer score — based on the opinions of hundreds of film and television critics — is a trusted measurement of critical recommendation for millions of fans . it represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show .
chameleon street is multilayered and complex , both in terms of the larger societal structures and hierarchies that it confronts and at the level of the relationship between film as art and film as social commentary . while coonskin hit the viewer over the head with a hammer from start to finish , gillespie foregrounds chameleon street as a film that both ushered in the 1990s black film explosion and imploded in its wake , demonstrating just how many options there are in thinking through , seeing , and transcending blackness , beyond simply embodying it .
in the original story , mrs . jumbo ' s original name was ella . she was not locked away after defending her son from some bullies . a character named jack the elephant trainer would announce the pyramid of pachyderms , not the ringmaster . timothy mouse was originally red the robin . there was also professor hoot owl , who taught him how to fly instead of the crows . ella named her baby just jumbo , not jumbo jr . the gossipy elephants praised him for his big ears instead of shunning him . dumbo was thrown into a donkey car by jack and the ringmaster , and on his pail they have crossed out j into a d for dumbo , different from the elephants immediately renaming him dumbo . he does talk in the novel , but not the film .
despite some of the issues–an incomplete script , a cast no one trusted to deliver the material–surrounding its production , the film went on to win the academy award for best picture the following year ( in addition to awards for best adapted screenplay and best director ) . though critical reception of the film upon its release was warm ( but not effusive ) , over the years , casablanca has rivaled citizen kane for the top position on many film critics’ “best” lists ( though , like every film , it is not without its detractors ) .
however , the final battle sequence between shaktinagar and shuryagadh has been choreographed really well and that is the best part of the film .
jumbo also addressed samuel l jackson’s recent criticisms that british black actors were unfairly taking roles from black american actors , and said it was purely down to the talent and training of british actors compared to their american counterparts .
as per trade sources , akshay kumar has been paid a whopping rs . 9 crores for dubbing the dialogues and participating in the picturisations of two promotional songs for percept picture company ' s animation film , jumbo . what is amazing about this deal is that akshay kumar does not have a deep baritone voice and it is not one of his strong points !
i ' m new to 8x10 large format and i was on the fence about buying this since it ' s expensive . however , boy was it worth it . easy set up and break down . lots of room for when i have a few film holders and a box of 8x10 film in it . it also is perfect for taking the film out of the holders and getting into my drum for processing .
unfortunately , billy rose’s jumbo opened in new york at radio city music hall during a newspaper strike and did not get reviewed by the all - important critics . as a result , the film did not do as well as it was projected . this failure was the only sour note during the spectacular run that miss day had at the box - office between 1959 - 66 . ( although the film eventually made a substantial profit through rentals , dvds and tv showings , including a $ 1million deal . )
if there ' s enough high fantasy mumbo - jumbo in that last paragraph to turn you off , you should stay far away from warcraft . the film fully embraces its source material , for better and worse . within 10 minutes of the movie starting , it ' s already throwing dozens of strange character names , epic locations and other bits of terminology at you .
dumbo is a terrific disney classic and is among the best films that the studio has produced . brilliantly animated and directed with a great cast , dumbo is a fun , sad film that will appeal to people of all ages . that ' s the great thing about this film . this is a great film that i grew up with , and is certainly a classic disney offering . although it has a few flaws , dumbo succeeds at being a fun , entertaining film for viewers of all ages . this is a well put together film from start to finish . you ' re sure to enjoy this film if you love previous disney outings and this is yet another stellar classic . the cast are wonderful and each brings something special to the screen to bring the characters to life with the great voice performance each one gives . this is among the most popular disney title and it ' s easy to see why . a very enjoyable flick for the whole family , it has something that anyone is sure to enjoy . dumbo is a flawed film , but nonetheless it is still a memorable film in disney ' s catalogue . despite its slight imperfections , dumbo is an accomplished animated feature and like i ' ve said before is sure to please disney fans of all ages . this is a must film and is among disney all time greatest classics . this was when disney was making cinematic gold and it shows . a superb film that is sure to demand multiple viewings . this was disney making great films ands dumbo is a wonderful film that will capture your imagination from start to finish .
jumbo was one of only four actors of colour in her year at central school of drama . “my understanding of who i was became negative at drama school and i really had to fight against that to finish , ” she added .
speaking at an evidence session for the labour party ' s inquiry into access and diversity in the performing arts , jumbo accused drama schools of squeezing out budding actors from a diverse or working class background by failing to provide enough support .
the jumbo valley is one of the wildest spots left in north america : it’s surrounded by the pristine crags of bc’s purcell mountains , it’s been home to the ktunaxa nation for more than 9 , 000 years and it’s critical grizzly habitat .
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years later , after playing ruth etting in mgm’s spectacular love me or leave me in 1955 , doris returned to the lot to make julie in 1956 , the tunnel of love in 1958 and please don’t eat the daisies” in 1960 . she seemingly found a semi - permanent home at universal , but returned to mgm again in 1962 to film the big , splashy circus musical , billy rose’s jumbo .
i was on the fence about spending this much money on a tent . since i ' m shooting large format ( 8x10 ) , this has made it so easy to have a few film holders and the film box inside . there is plenty of room to work . also , when i need to put the film in the rotary drum , this makes it very easy . it folds up to a very compact size that i could even travel with .
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, with its location - shot dance scenes and social commentary , day ' s film seemed like a throwback to an era that today is sadly missed .
is the upcoming sequel to the 1988 film that will also be directed , produced and written by the chiodo brothers . it will be released in 3d .
the cartoon does start off a tad too slow , and the story is on the predictable side . but jerry and jumbo is a rock - solid tom and jerry cartoon , that is both hilarious and cute . the animation is really nice and colourful as these cartoons usually are , and the music is delightful . the sight gags serve their purpose well too , the best being the running gag of jumbo sucking things with his trunk with such powerful force , and the ending is very unexpected in a good way . the pacing is in general brisk and efficient , and the characters are great , the best actually being the very cute elephant jumbo . overall , a rock - solid cartoon with a lot going for it . 8 / 10 bethany cox
with minor inflation this year , theaters sold slightly more tickets in 2016 . after a summer dip , it looked unlikely that the year could catch up with last year’s jumbo summer and holiday seasons , led by the year - end “star wars” reboot .
the film received another distinction of note in 1980 , when it was the first of disney ' s canon of animated films to be released on home video .
what , in fact , is this spectral signifier of film blackness in the absence of any discussion of film whiteness ? what did it mean for critics to repeatedly conflate harris’s rendition of his character street ( wendell b . harris jr . ) with woody allen’s earlier mockumentary zelig ( 1983 ) , john guare’s six degrees of separation ( 1990 ) , and jennie livingston’s documentary paris is burning ( 1990 ) ? gillespie deftly weaves together the facts of the film’s production and reception to reveal how the establishment , simply because race was involved , sidelined through mislabeling a film that demanded to be seen as a work of art in its own right .
gillespie : yes , lott’s work is valuable but he ultimately does cap the possibilities . chameleon street taught me a lesson about black film historiography . i first saw it in 1990 at the national black arts festival in atlanta not long after its grand jury prize victory at the sundance film festival . there was a buzz surrounding the film programming that year , a palpable sense that work being screened was a showcase of what was literally an avant - garde , or advanced guard , of an upcoming crop of black films . of course that upcoming crop would be the “black film explosion” of 1991 , the beginning of a “new black cinema . ”
ornadoes have scant respect for reputations . in steven quale ' s idiotic disaster movie , they come lolloping across the midwest , one after another , scattering meteorologists and meatheads , teenage sweethearts and documentary film - makers alike . the weather is flipping jumbo jets like ninepins , spinning school buses like tops . the one thing it can ' t ruffle , apparently , is richard armitage ' s foursquare teacher , who toils through the elements to save his son from a flooded industrial park . all around , meanwhile , the film ' s bullish special effects are wreaking havoc with the narrative .
burns film center : polish film series sponsored by martin scorsese [ faculty mentor ] desc : arranged to take my fss 203 ( 16 students ) class ( fall 2014 ) to a special showing at the burns : the illumination ( 1972 ) on sept . 29 . planning started in august when i prepared syllabus for class .
assembled in a minute and dismantled in even less time , this jumbo film changing tent is easily put away in its own bag . the tent and bag take up no room at all a very important consideration when you live in a motorhome . i no longer have to worry about putting my films into the developing tank or placing sheet film in cut film holders . i often use the tent in full sunlight without the least problem . and everyone knows how violent the australian sun can be ! the other advantage of the tent , and even more important , is the fact of having a mini environment devoid of dust : no more dust on the frames nor on my films . this could seem like a small detail but it has changed my life .
today , the film is one of the most acclaimed animated movies of all time , often called the best in the medium . it is also known for being john lasseter ' s favorite movie , and it is among one of walt disney ' s favorites . it is also a favorite of film historian / critic leonard maltin .
gillespie explicates his chosen case studies through key themes that apply , in varying degrees , to each chapter : the possibilities of black film as speculative and ambivalent ; the transformation of race onscreen ( but not only onscreen ) from constitutive and cultural fiction to social fact ; and the need for spectators to perform for themselves the active labors of decoding the overdetermined visual signs of film blackness . finally , and perhaps most importantly , he asks his readers to consider , “what if black film is art and not the visual transcription of the black lifeworld ? ” ( 157 ) . gillespie rightly demands that black film be considered as both art and discourse ( 14 ) .
in the end , it was when i read mikhail bakhtin that i really began to write all this out . i’ve always believed in the film beyond the respectability promise of positive and negative images . the film’s deadly in its cheekiness . it baits you to revile it . but i believe that the real affective force of the film lies in its function as a visual historiography of american popular culture with an attention to the visualizing mechanisms of antiblackness and white pleasure . it can never be unwatched .
' bahubali 2 ' crossed the 800 crore mark on thursday , 6 may , even as the film had varying total estimates , according to local box office trackers .
this film shares some plot elements with godzilla : the series , an animated series produced as a sequel to the 1998 film . these similarities include godzilla ' s lone offspring imprinting on nick and defending humanity from other monsters , as well as the presence of monster island , a location carried over from the late showa series godzilla films .
chapter 2 on chameleon street ( wendell b . harris , jr . , 1989 ) is exceptional in its blend of american film cultural and industrial critique , as gillespie works to demonstrate the limits to phenotyping film blackness . chameleon street is a social satire based on the story of the real - life character william douglass street , who impersonated everyone from athletes to doctors to lawyers to journalists , charming and conning hundreds while also making a living—and upending some lives in the process . the film’s grand jury prize at sundance in 1990 marked the dawn of the “new black cinema , ” but it seems to be one of the few films of this era that , despite festival success , did not fair as well with critics or audiences who were evidently not ready for the film’s implicit critique of what gillespie calls the “ black of black film” ( 73 ) .
today , jumbo is counted among the great circus films such as the greatest show on earth , trapeze , carnival story and circus world . charles walters directed the picture with joe pasternak and martin melcher producing . doris day was nominated as “best actress in a musical or comedy” at the hollywood foreign press awards but lost to rosalind russell for gypsy . she did , however , walk away with the evening’s coveted world’s most popular film actress accolade again .
jumbo , who is currently starring in common at the national theatre , said the last television job she had before she went to america was itv detective show vera , which she “loved” , but in all the seasons she had been the only person of colour on the set .
story : jumbo , the king’s warrior elephant , wants to take it easy after the recently won war . but little does he know it’s only the battle that’s won . . . not the war . movie review : jumbo is back . unfortunately not with a bang . after having lost his father . . . and his mother . . . after waging an epic war against his arch enemy bhaktavar ( remember the prequel ? ) , this warrior elephant is all out to enjoy the little pleasures of life . tweens , watch him with his little antics . but then life in the jungle ( and destiny ) has something else in store for him . sometimes it’s fighting little battles — there are some action scenes and dhamaka here too — and sometimes it’s about taking bigger risks . what’s that ? a life - changing decision that could mean do or die for the elephant family . what does jumbo choose ? before you guess that you wonder why the animation in this sequel is not an inch smarter . as for the voice over of jumbo ( akshay kumar ) and his mommy ( dimple kapadia ) something seems to be amiss .
she continued : “if there was work here , i would be working here . i would like nothing more than to be working in film and on television in this country .
a british actress who stars in hit us tv show the good wife has criticised the uk ' s film and tv industry for ' pulling the plug ' on black actors .
it was the first walt disney animated feature to be set in america , and the first movie for sterling holloway ( the stork ) and verna felton ( the elephant matriarch / mrs . jumbo ) . both would become regulars in disney animated films for the next thirty - five years .
one of the things that those critical of casablanca cite as evidence for their position is the “schlocky romanticism” ( to quote pauline kael ) that permeates the film . and yes , despite its war - torn setting and the intrigue surrounding the plot , it is most decidedly a romance , first and foremost . but the film transcends the typical trappings of romance .
in this well - paced film , waggoner does an admirable job of allowing his subjects to tell their stories and explain their positions , without much filmmaker editorializing . oberti oberto , an italian architect , has , for the last 24 years , pursued his dream of building what he calls the “ jumbo glacier resort ” in the valley . oberto argues that his development will create jobs and that it will become the vehicle through which the masses can access this pristine wilderness .
the film takes place in a circus setting in florida , possibly in present - day 1941 , and starts with a formation of storks delivering newborn babies to various circus animals . mrs . jumbo ' s baby is delivered to her belatedly by an exhausted stork , and the baby elephant is well received by the other elephants - until the size of his ears are revealed after he sneezes . the elephant , nicknamed
dumbo
is teased by the sarcastic female elephants . the mother ignores them , however , until mrs . jumbo is imprisoned as a
mad elephant
after trying to defend her son from a crowd of antagonizing boys . a mouse named timothy befriends dumbo , and crafts a plan to make the sorrowful little elephant a star in the circus .
this dreadfully boring film ends with the hope of a sequel . it ' s time to introduce the makers to john lennon . ' make love , not war . . . '
the biggest milestone has been reached by the biggest blockbuster of indian cinema ! ! ! ! # 1000crorebaahubali @ ssrajamouli ,
wrote johar , alongside the poster of the film .
conjuring 2 was also last year’s second - highest grosser in india , while conjuring which released in 2013 , was the seventh - highest grosser with collections going up to rs 22 . 76 crore . another film from the world of conjuring was annabelle that was well received in south india , especially tamil nadu where the film collected rs 41 lakh from 30 screens .
bought this for loading / unloading 4x5 film and in the future loading 4x5 film into a daylight tank this product is well constructed and was light tight out of the box ( it does recommend checking it before use ) . it is very roomy and could easily handle 5x7 and 8x10 film , so much easier than loading film in a changing bag . it ' s probably much larger than you need if you ' re just loading 4x5 film , in that case i ' d save some money and go with the small size . set up is easy and rolls up nicely for traveling . can ' t speak to durability yet , but if you follow the care instructions ( ie , don ' t leave it in the trunk of your car in the middle of summer for extended periods and store out of the stuff bag when you ' re not traveling with it ) it should last for a long time .
michael boyce gillespie’s introduction to film blackness and the idea of black film begins with a series of questions that seem to be posed to reader and author alike , for he declares that this book is “driven by the belief that the idea of black film is always a question , never an answer” ( 16 ) . the initial set of queries posed in “we insist : the idea of black film” do indeed push the reader to think through some of the past and present iterations of blackness in american culture and media , and ultimately to come to the conclusion that there have always been multiple ways of being black , becoming black , performing blackness , challenging blackness , embodying blackness , defying blackness , and transcending the conventional understanding of blackness .
jumbo , known best for her roles in hit american tv series the good wife , and its spin - off the good fight , spoke at an evidence session for the labour party’s inquiry into diversity in the arts about the failures of broadcasters to recognise the value of black and working class actors .
noble ( dean jaggar ) is successful in his efforts and the wonder circus is shut down with all of its assets , including it’s star attraction , the incredible elephant , jumbo , confiscated . heartbroken and defeated , kitty , her father and his fiancée , lulu , decide to rebuild the business from the ground level starting with two sticks and a blanket which is equivalent to dancing for pennies on a street corner . they receive an unexpected visit from sam who miraculously produces jumbo and together , the four performers , with renewed confidence and ambition , roll up their sleeves and embark on a new journey .
dumbo won the 1941 academy award for original music score , awarded to musical directors frank churchill & oliver wallace . churchill and lyricist ned washington were nominated for the 1941 academy award for best song for baby mine , the song that plays during dumbo ' s visit to his mother ' s cell . the film also won best animation design at the 1947 cannes film festival .
chris hemsworth kicks off filming for the star - studded men in black spin - off as he cuts a sharp figure in london . . . 21 years after the first film hit screens
the film it is not the only contributor to increase the fear factor in india but films like conjuring franchise , paranormal activity , don’t breathe and many more gave goosebumps to the cine - goers . the proof of this is box office collections showing the evil clown pennywise in the film it is not the only one to make the audience sit at the edge of their seats .
ironically yet effectively , in chapter 3 , “voices inside ( everything is everything ) , ” gillespie advances his argument for a bodiless film blackness through an in - depth examination of classical noir , the genre that he notes is best characterized by “its consistency as a racialized mode of white masculinities in crisis” ( 84 ) . let’s face it , every ethnicity , gender , and race is a foil to white male hetero - normative narrative authority in classic noir . and yet , gillespie is able to upend the pessimism , fatalism , and deviance inherent in the genre when he posits the noir film deep cover against what he calls the incomplete thesis of james naremore’s seminal study of film noir , more than night , which “neglects that the history of the idea [ of noir ] is very much about the crossing of manufactured borders , gender trouble , and racial ambiguity” ( 86 ) . for gillespie , deep cover , like chameleon street , provides a different conceptual frame through which to think through the potentialities of black film and film blackness , as well as blackness and film . he questions repeatedly whether the medium of film should even be considered a window or mirror to blackness , while recognizing that the noir vernacular to which deep cover gives voice exists alongside the power and privilege of classical noir that sees only black , never blackness .
director vikram bhatt , who has made films like raaz , 1920 and haunted - 3d , in an interview had suggested to those trying their hand at horror films that these movies should be
high on the believable factor
minus the
mumbo jumbo
to boost the growth of this genre in india .
although plans for godzilla 2 had been abandoned back in 1999 while sony ' s rights to the franchise expired in 2003 , it had become rumored as late as 2007 that sony was resuming work on a sequel to 1998 ' s godzilla . this speculation stemmed in part from stock footage of godzilla from the 1998 film appearing in a then - recent doritos commercial as well as multiple fan - made trailers for a godzilla 2 appearing online . in 2007 , the german film website cinetech even reported that sony was planning to release a sequel to the 1998 film in summer 2009 . sony eventually confirmed that it no longer held the rights to produce a godzilla film , and that it had no plans to reacquire the rights to the franchise from toho in the conceivable future . [ 1 ]
appearing at a screening of the film in london this weekend , jones made it clear that a second warcraft film would follow up on the breadcrumbs laid down by the first one , following the life of orc moses - figure thrall , who’s raised as a slave by humans despite his orcish heritage . “so to me the idea over the course of three films would be for thrall to fulfill that vision of durotan to create a new homeland for the orcs , ” jones said , referencing one of the protagonists of the first film . “so in [ the sequel ] it would be the adolescent years of that baby , and anyone who does know their warcraft stories would know it’s very much a spartacus story that goes on with that character . ” he also added that “family” is the would - be trilogy’s most important factor , and admitted that “the rest of it is mumbo jumbo names and shit . ”
film trade analysts are saying that the revival of the horror genre could be attributed to well - made hollywood horror films . another reason could be due to lack of quality content from bollywood movies .
inasmuch as the spectacular richard rodgers and lorenz hart broadway musical jumbo was written in 1935 , this 1962 film version can ' t help but seem a little quaint . still , the film features the original production ' s star jimmy durante , energetically recreating his stage role as circus owner pop wonder ; it is durante ' s bravura performance that saves the film from dullness . threatened with foreclosure , pop wonder and his pretty daughter kitty ( doris day ) put their fates in the hands of go - getter sam rawlins ( stephen boyd ) . what they don ' t know is that sam is the son of pop ' s biggest rival ( dean jagger ) , and he ' s been sent to undermine the wonder circus . it goes without saying that sam turns the tables on his dad , thereby saving the day and winning kitty ' s hand . martha raye shows up as lulu , a fortune teller who can ' t figure out what ' s going to happen next ( funny , we can ) . and of course there ' s jumbo the elephant , who figures into the film ' s funniest scene ( as well as one of jimmy durante ' s most celebrated punchlines ) . old mgm musical hands charles walters and busby berkeley share directing chores , but somehow the film hasn ' t the panache of their earlier work . happily , most of the rodgers - hart songs are retained , including
my romance
and
the most beautiful girl in the world
- not to mention a few rodgers - hart tunes borrowed from other show , e . g .
this can ' t be love
. ~ hal erickson , rovi
mumbai , oct 21 : the bollywood ‘kinng’ akshay kumar is overwhelming his producers with his ever - so - mounting prices . the actor who has recently undertaken a project of percept pictures , an animation flick ‘jumbo’ has charged the producers a whopping sum of rs 9 crores . looks like akki is headed for the lion’s share this time !
dumbo was completed and delivered to disney ' s distributor , rko radio pictures , in fall 1941 . rko balked at the fact that the film only ran 64 minutes , and demanded that walt disney either :
after its october 31 release , dumbo proved to be a financial success . the simple film only cost $ 813 , 000 to produce , half the cost of snow white and less than a third of the cost of pinocchio . dumbo eventually grossed $ 1 . 3 million during its original release ; it and snow white were the only two pre - 1943 disney features to turn a profit ( barrier , 318 ) . the united states entered world war ii in december 1941 , reducing the box office draw of the film , which was nevertheless the most financially successful disney film of the 1940s , thanks to a 1949 rerelease .
sony originally wanted to produce a trilogy of films when they acquired the rights to the godzilla franchise in 1992 . after a failed attempt at making a godzilla film in 1994 , tristar pictures brought in the independence day team of roland emmerich as a director and dean devlin as a producer , who wrote the script of what ended up being the 1998 film godzilla , and were still intending on making it into a trilogy .
according to great india films , the us distributor of
bahubali 2
, the film minted $ 12 . 6 million as of wednesday , officially surpassing life - time earnings of $ 12 . 3 million of ' dangal ' . producer karan johar made the news official when he took to twitter to announce that ' bahubali : the conclusion ' has become the first indian film to gross rs 1 , 000 crore internationally .
jimmy durante was born james francis durante on 10 february 1893 in new york . his first wife jeanne died in 1943 . rather like his pop wonder role in “jumbo” he married his second wife , marjorie little after a 16 - year courtship when she was 39 and he was 67 . he died in january 1980 in santa monica , california .
the slump that is felt in the indian film industry is also being felt in hollywood as north american ticket sales are down by 6 percent this year so far as compared to last year , as per box office mojo .
grant cramer , who was 27 years old in 1988 , will be returning as the original film ' s protagonist mike tobacco in the film and will be 51 years old when he enters the production phase of the film . grant cramer claims that he is not the main character again , instead there will be 2 new younger leads , who are circus performers who are stranded in the mountain town of kismet the new klowns invade when their car breaks down who mike tobacco will teach through his experience with the 1988 killer klowns massacre . these 2 new young leads will have to save the world from the returning killer klowns while they are being blamed for what is happening .
the film ' s simplicity and charm have made it the favorite disney film of many people , including film and animation historian leonard maltin . of particular note is the pink elephants on parade sequence , which depicts dumbo and timothy ' s drunken hallucinations . the sequence was the first venture into surrealism for a narrative disney film , taking its cue from the experimental fantasia . the sequence essentially breaks all of the
rules
that the disney animators had lived by for creating realistic animation over the previous decade : pink , polka - dot , and plaid elephants dance , sing , and morph into an number of various objects . the design of the sequence is highly stylized , and many of the artists who worked on it were the younger artists at the studio who joined the picket line in may 1941 and eventually would become the nucleus of united productions of america , the most influential animation studio of the 1950s .
the book is about being discursively minded in engaging the idea of black film . the book accounts for some of my ambivalences , pleasures , and politics about black cinephilia as film blackness became the term that best represented how i wanted to think and write about the idea of black film . the first step was grounding the project in a suspension of any insistence on social fact or truth or identitarian claims about cinema . i don’t care for thinking about cinema and spectatorship in the teachable - moment terms of holding hands with strangers in the dark while humming “kumbaya . ” i want to be disrupted , challenged , and engaged . i particularly don’t want to be patronized by how a film can be said to embody the black lifeworld . besides , if i had to choose an art to do that kind of impossible wish - fulfillment work of embodying or “truly” reflecting black folks , it sure as hell wouldn’t be cinema .