The First Movie

56m
Documentary
7.3

Filmmaker Mark Cousins, who was brought up in a Northern Irish war zone, travels to Goptapa, a Kurdish-Iraqi village of just seven hundred people on a tributary of the Tigris river, and tries to make a dream film about a place that is normally only portrayed in current affairs programmes. He gives the kids cameras, and they make their own little movies about war, love, a fish that goes to a magical place, and a chicken who debates justice.

Cast

Mark Cousins
Self – Documentarist
Gharib Ahmad Rauf
Self – Translator

Crew

Mark Cousins
Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Timo Langer
Editor, Additional Photography
David Leishman
Online Editor
Ben Mullen
Colorist
Robbie Allen
Executive Producer
Tabitha Jackson
Executive Producer
Trish Dolman
Producer
Gill Parry
Producer
Haydn Wazelle
Associate Producer
Alan MacEachern
Animation
Angelo Nicoloyannis
Sound Effects Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Miguel Nunes
Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Brent Calkin
Sound Recordist
Paul Anderson
Visual Effects Compositor
Melissa Hui
Music
Stephen Cheung
Dialogue Editor
Darri Donnelly
Title Designer

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