Control Room

Documentary, 83 min, USA 2003
Sunday, June 20th, 21:00 hrs, 

Director: Jehane Noujaim
Photography:
Jehane Noujaim, Hani Salama
Editors:
Julia Bacha, Lilah Bankier, Charlie Marquardt

Producers:
Rosadel Varela, Hani Salama
Co-Producer:
Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt
Executive Producer:
Abdullah Schleifer
Production:
Noujaim Films

Distribution:
TV 2 Danmark Programme Sales
Tel.: +45 35 372 200
Fax: +45 35 372 227

Selected Filmography Jehane Noujaim: Only the Strong Survive, 2002; Startup.com, 2001; Down From the Mountain, 2000; Director: Startup.com, 2001.

The media belongs to war and control of reporting to victory. Since 1996, the first independent Arab-language news network, Al Jazeera, has caused the "balance" of pictures, the West’s monopoly on news from the East, to totter. Jehane Noujaim spent three months at the controversial news station, from the eve of the war to the fall of the first Saddam statue in Baghdad. As a result, "Control Room" is not only a gripping analysis of the Al Jazeera phenomenon, but also a highly emotional chronology of the latest Golf War.