Love City, Jalalabad
WINTER FILM AWARDS 2015 WINNER - SOCIALLY RELEVANT FILM, WINNER - BEST DOCUMENTARY
2013
Norway, Australia
98 mins
English and Pashto
Documentary Film Competition
| George Gittoes | |
| Torstein Grude, George Gittoes | |
Notorious Action Artist/Filmmaker George Gittoes and his girlfriend Singer/Performance Artist Hellen Rose team up with a local group of struggling actors to collectively declare LOVE and ART on Jalalabad, one of the most dangerous places on earth. They set up an artist-run space as a center for freedom of expression, right next door to where Bin Laden plotted the attacks of September 11th. This daringly wild ‘High Prankster-style Super Doc’ becomes deadly serious as George and his team act beyond killing with bombs and bullets and use art and music to sooth the savage beast of extremism. Gittoes takes the whole Tent Cinema Circus up the rocky road to Tora Bora in an old blue Russian-built truck. With the monkey, ‘Dali’ he stuns the villagers with balloons and fun and children squealing with delight. Gittoes defies the Taliban who can only look on as the children are left spellbound. Amir Shah Talash marries for love, the 19yr old Neha Ali Kahn becomes the first Pashtun woman to make a film, Arshad Kahn the 3ft ‘petit’ comic genius, makes his international debut. Gittoes goes right into the heart of darkness and finds gold!
About the Director
Gittoes is a famous artist and filmmaker who has created some of the most groundbreaking and innovative documentaries in the world. He worked alongside Marie Guevara in Nicaragua in ‘Bullets of The Poets’ and traveled to Iraq to make ‘Sound Track to War’ and ‘Rampage’. ‘Miscreants of Taliwood’ saw his first meeting with extreme Islam in Pakistan. He is currently in Afghanistan finishing his latest film ‘Snow Monkey’ in which Gittoes goes deep into the world of the street gangs of Jalalabad.
Awards
2014 Fox Australia Sydney Film Festival – Nominated for Best Documentary
Trailer
