2007 British-American-French television documentary film
The Boys from Baghdad High
Tribeca Film Festival poster
Also known as
Baghdad High
Genre
Documentary film Television news magazine
Directed by
Ivan O'Mahoney Laura Winter
Starring
Hayder Khalid Mohammad Raed Anmar Refat Ali Shadman
Composers
Will Worsley Farhad Amirahmadi Mounir Baziz
Country of origin
United Kingdom
United States
France[1]
Original languages
Arabic with subtitles English
Production
Executive producers
Alan Hayling Karen O'Connor Hans Robert Eisenhauer Sheila Nevins
Producers
Ivan O'Mahoney Laura Winter
Production locations
Baghdad, Iraq
Editors
Richard Guard Johnny Burke
Camera setup
single-camera
Running time
90 minutes
Original release
Release
8 January 2008 (2008-01-08)
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The Boys from Baghdad High, also known as Baghdad High, is a British-American-French television documentary film. It was first shown in the United Kingdom at the 2007 Sheffield Doc/Fest, before airing on BBC Two on 8 January 2008. It also aired in many other countries including France, Australia, the United States, Canada, Germany and the Netherlands. It documents the lives of four Iraqi schoolboys of different religious or ethnic backgrounds over the course of one year in the form of a video diary. The documentary was filmed by the boys themselves, who were given video cameras for the project.
Directed and produced by Ivan O'Mahoney and Laura Winter of Renegade Pictures and StoryLabTV, for the United Kingdom's BBC, HBO in the United States, and the Franco-German network Arte, The Boys from Baghdad High was produced by Alan Hayling and Karen O'Connor for the BBC, Hans Robert Eisenhauer for Arte, and Sheila Nevins for HBO.[2]
The Boys from Baghdad High received high viewership when it initially aired in the UK, and was reviewed favourably in the media. It was named the Best News and Current Affairs Film at the European Independent Film Festival, won the Premier Prize at the Sandford St. Martin Trust Awards, and was nominated for awards at two film festivals. The documentary also received the Radio Times Readers Award, and a nomination for the Amnesty International 2008 Television Documentary and Docudrama UK Media Award.
^"This World: The Boys from Baghdad High". BFI Film & TV Database. London: British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 7 May 2009. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
^"Baghdad High Synopsis". HBO. 2008. Retrieved 12 April 2010.
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