The First Movie
We tell stories not for revenge, but to find our place in the world.
56 mins
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.
Gharib Ahmad Rauf
Self – Translator
Brent Calkin
Sound Recordist
Melissa Hui
Music
Gill Parry
Producer
Angelo Nicoloyannis
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Haydn Wazelle
Associate Producer
Trish Dolman
Producer
Robbie Allen
Executive Producer
Timo Langer
Editor
Angelo Nicoloyannis
Sound Effects Editor
Stephen Cheung
Dialogue Editor
Tabitha Jackson
Executive Producer
Alan MacEachern
Animation
Timo Langer
Additional Photography
David Leishman
Online Editor
Miguel Nunes
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Miguel Nunes
Supervising Sound Editor
Ben Mullen
Colorist
Darri Donnelly
Title Designer
Paul Anderson
Visual Effects Compositor