"Oscar winner Cate Blanchett will head the jury that will pick the winner of the Dubai International Film Festival's IWC Schaffhausen Filmmaker script award..."
Says Pachachi: “The idea for the film began when my writing partner Irada told me that she had made notes about situations that she had been involved in during 2006-2007 including conversations she had remembered and written down, sometimes verbatim, in a notebook. This inspired me to recall events I had witnessed myself and, together, we then began a long and complex process of sharing those memories and experiences with one another in order to build a fabric of stories and anecdotes about life in Iraq during that period.”
"Maysoon Pachachi was presented with the $100,000 IWC Schaffhausen Filmmaker Award..."
"All told, Pachachi is a very practical person. But her emotions are close to the surface as she talks about the second course at the school in 2006. The litany of kidnaps and deaths (none of them a result of the school's work) brings home what the violence in Iraq over the last few years has meant for ordinary people."
Cast of May 24 Fundraiser
May 24 Fundraiser Host Sara Griffiths
May 24 Fundraiser Host Sara Griffiths & Casting Director Leila Bertrand
Casting Director Leila Bertrand at May 24 Fundraiser
Q & A with Maysoon Pachachi at May 24 Fundraiser
Event Producer Chipo Chung at May 24 Fundraiser
Maysoon Pachachi rehearsing actor
Maysoon Pachachi rehearsing actor
Maysoon Pachachi auditoning actors in Baghdad
Test shoot
Test shoot
Test shoot
Maysoon Pachachi & Production Designer in Baghdad
Maysoon Pachachi in Baghdad
Residential Baghdad
Reema & Nour (test shoot)
Policeman hiding (test shoot)
Kareem (test shoot)
Passengers on a minibus (test shoot)
Passengers on a minibus (test shoot)
Passengers on a minibus (test shoot)
Sara (test shoot)
Sara huddles behind her rooftop wall (test shoot)
Sara peers over her roof wall (test shoot)
Mona & Kamal (test shoot)
Kamal prepared the crib for his unborn daughter (test shoot)
Mona (test shoot)
Maysoon Pachachi in Baghdad
Passengers on a minibus (test shoot)
Nermeen (test shoot)
Abdulhamid Juma, Chairman of DIFF IWC Friend of the Brand and head of the IWC Filmmaker Award jury, Cate Blanchett CEO of IWC, Georges Kern and winner of the IWC Filmmaker Award 2012 director Maysoon Pachachi
2012 IWC Filmmaker Award Winner Maysoon Pachachi with the panel of judges
Producer Talal Al-Muhanna & Director Maysoon Pachachi