{"id":795,"date":"2025-04-15T16:29:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T16:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immortals-documentary.com\/?p=795"},"modified":"2025-04-15T16:29:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T16:29:57","slug":"filming-conditions-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immortals-documentary.com\/de\/filming-conditions-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Filming Conditions in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Set<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite having filming permits, we had to negotiate with people before the scene. The Iraqi assistant director and fixer handled the negotiations, or in more difficult cases, our Iraqi producer Mohammed stepped in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, traffic was our main enemy. Depending on the traffic situation, protagonists were delayed by hours, making it nearly impossible to film at more than one location per day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t Cross Red Lines<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Equally important was the constant update on the security situation. We had to keep track of power struggles within the government, shifting socio-political discussions surrounding the \u201cOctober Revolution,\u201d and also the families and tribes of the female protagonists. Together with the protagonists, assistant directors, and especially the Iraqi producer, we continuously reassessed what could be said in the film and what should be avoided.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was crucial not to cross &#8220;red lines&#8221; that could later endanger the Iraqi crew or the protagonists. The government wasn\u2019t a threat to us; after all, we had their filming approval. The real danger came from non-governmental groups that act independently of the government.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Set Despite having filming permits, we had to negotiate with people before the scene. The Iraqi assistant director and fixer handled the negotiations, or in more difficult cases, our Iraqi producer Mohammed stepped in. However, traffic was our main enemy. Depending on the traffic situation, protagonists were delayed by hours, making it nearly impossible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/immortals-documentary.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/immortals-documentary.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/immortals-documentary.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immortals-documentary.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immortals-documentary.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/immortals-documentary.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"https:\/\/immortals-documentary.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immortals-documentary.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/immortals-documentary.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immortals-documentary.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immortals-documentary.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}