Hiba Basssem's film from our first documentary course Baghdad Days will be shown at the Robert Flaherty Seminar in New York in June 2009.

By the early part of 2007, the security situation in Baghdad had deteriorated to such an extent, that we were forced to temporarily shut down the school, and complete our films in Damascus.

The two co-founders of the school have recently completed feature-length documentaries of their own:

LIFE AFTER THE FALL by Kasim Abid

OUR FEELINGS TOOK THE PICTURES: OPEN SHUTTERS IRAQ by Maysoon Pachachi

Our students' films continued to be shown throughout 2008 and some of our former students have gone on to try to make films.

While in the US, we were asked to do 3 radio interviews and press publication. If you are interested, the links to the New York and Washington shows are below.

During 2008 films made by the film school's students were shown in Europe, the Middle East and the US.