Film: Control Room May 29, 2007

You are invited to attend Cinemagic's new weekly documentary
screening event. The event will take place on Tuesday, May 29th, at
the Cinemagic Courtyard in Bait Lothan, Salmiya, and will run between
7:30 – 9:30 p.m.

This week, we will be screening Egyptian-American Filmmaker Jehane
Noujaim's "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.

For its part, Cinemagic Kuwait, is organizing these events as part of
its efforts to contribute to the development of an internationally
competitive Kuwaiti audio-visual production industry, partly by
bringing the filmmakers and audiences together and by Increasing the
public's interest in – and appreciation for – the art of filmmaking.

As always, attendance is free of charge and you are encouraged to
invite guests. Seating is limited, so make sure you come a little
early. Snacks and refreshments will be served.

Also, we will be providing mist fans because of the weather.

Hope to see you there!

Official Website: http://www.cinemagics.tv