Control Room Summary
Director: Jehane Noujaim
Genres: Culture & Society
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Egyptian-American filmmaker Jehane_Noujaim (Startup.com) directs Control Room, a documentary investigating the ethics of media-managed wars. This film particularly focuses on the U.S.-led war in Iraq. Noujaim and her film crew travel to the headquarters of Al-Jazeera, the media leader in the Arab world, to find out what the news looks like in Iraq. She interviews several journalists and producers involved in war reporting for Al-Jazeera, including senior producer Sameer Khader, journalist Hassan Ibrahim, and producer Deema Khatib. Noujaim also interviews American correspondents David Shuster from NBC and Tom_Mintier from CNN. Control Room premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004 as part of the American Spectrum program. Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
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