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David Pritchard - PRODUCER
I met a bunch of people from Jordan about six seven years ago, we started developing films together. This was the first project that struck me as being the right one to do first, so this is the one we're doing first. It's a serious film; it's about a lot of serious themes: child abuse, career issues for women…
Making this film was nothing short of wild, completely crazy. There are 11 members of the crew here that I've brought with me from the United States that don't speak Arabic. So one of the biggest hurtles we had was actually producing a film without really knowing what they're saying on camera. The hard part was getting locations where we can actually shoot on. It's very difficult to kind of control a street here, to control a block.
We made a decision early on that we would build a set that actually represented about 8 of our locations. We got control of a very old and kind of run-down house that was on the side of the hill in East Amman. We converted that house into 8 of the interiors that we need.
We intend to enter this film at Cannes, Sundance, the New York film festival, in Dubai, in Berlin and in Toronto. I'm completely confident that this film will fit into the same category as Il Postino, Cinema Paradiso… So I think it's really important that a Jordanian and an Arab film company is producing a human story about human struggles in real life situations.
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