ZAYNE AKYOL - Director
Team Deakins
How Did You Go About Getting Interviews?
I really didn't know it was possible, but I had one scene in the script that so my main protagonist, which is Roj Dafelaj, she's contact with some ISIS members in jail. And I had a few scenes like that that I scripted and taught. So I think I'm an expert now. How many inmates did you end up filming interviewing? I met around 100 probably. Of course, most of them didn't accept. With those 50 in the editing because we find a narrative arc, then only 15. You're mixing women and men because their wife were in the detention camp,. But they are very protected and watched.
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