“Stop filming now, all of you.” Fourth Act Film has revealed an official trailer for an acclaimed documentary film called Hollywoodgate, a chilling look at this moment in Afghanistan’s history. This doc premiered at the 2023 Venice & Telluride Film Festivals last year to positive reviews, and also played at the Woodstock, Zurich, and Stockholm Film Festivals. Hollywoodgate, which has nothing to do with Hollywood anyway, is Egyptian director Ibrahim Nash’at’s unprecedented and audacious look at the Taliban’s transition from an insurgent militia into a military regime. Immediately after the US pullout from Afghanistan, Taliban forces occupied the Hollywood Gate complex, which is claimed to be a former CIA base in Kabul. Helicopters and fighter jets that were thought to be destroyed now lethally bomb the opposition, creating untold collateral damage in the process; and the use of international documentarians for the purposes of propaganda is now underway. Over the course of one year, this doc film exposes their transformation using these supplies and “employing Hollywood-style propaganda to achieve their goals.” Scary. A truly brave film about propaganda. // Continue Reading ›
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