The Miscreants of TaliwoodGeorge Gittoes

Australian artist and film maker George Gittoes spent two years in the Taliban-occupied north of Pakistan looking into the armed struggle of fundamentalists against the ‘unholy film industry’ – an cheap mix of Bollywood and American 80’s action movies. The surreal war situation there doesn't stop local filmmakers from making lowbrow movies with large doses of half-naked women, action heroes, and pulp fiction. This flourishing, outlaw, micro budget movie industry may seem easy money but Taliban moralists are less appreciative of this, expressing their discontent by burning video stores to the ground. Shootings are covert, actresses need to flee the country sometimes and film directors keep low profile. At the same time, he discovers that the Taliban is also disseminating a form of entertainment that people are just as greedy for: recordings of real beheadings and executions.



Vertoond op editie(s) 2010
Screened at edition(s) 2010

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Directed by George Gittoes
Australiл, Pakistan
2008 93 min.
Engels
No subtitles

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ConScience

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Director

George Gittoes

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George Gittoes

Production company

Gittoes & Dalton Production

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