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Where is Muthana now?

posted 15 years ago by the-lyons-dendotcom
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looking for an update on muthana's situation. anyone?

i would imagine he is either still milking the kindness out of one of his new friends or somewhere with an expired visa waiting for fame to come knocking.

it was great to see how pretty much everyone in the industry he met was really pulling for him. and then so frustrating to seem him drop the ball time and time again with the opportunities given. as a filmmaker myself it was really a unique doc and i quite enjoyed it.

[–] tornew 15 years ago

He is in London waiting tables.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91819116

[–] aspartame 15 years ago

I am in london at the mo and i would like to ask him a few questions.

[–] psuedoK 15 years ago

I'm glad he got over his disdain of waiting on others.

[–] morphine_79 15 years ago

I felt frustrated that when the documentary ends, he is still successfully leeching off the charity of others. I really wanted to see the moment when he had burned all his bridges and had nobody left to mooch off of. It bothers me that he might be able to go on doing this indefinitely. I couldn't believe Dwayne "the rock" Johnson paid the 15,000 pounds for Muthana's film school. That's like 21,000 U.S. dollars! I know the Rock is a wealthy guy, but still. He's definitely a sweetheart and Muthana didn't deserve a penny. I hope the day comes when Muthana's con game no longer works and he ends up scrubbing toilets.

[–] amandaurungus 15 years ago

I think the movie made him out to be the bad guy.
Yeah he asked for a lot of help, but if you don't step up
and ask you'll never get anywhere.

myspace.com/survivalcomescrashingin

[–] Bombest 15 years ago

It was a 1,500 sterling pounds.

[–] deschreiber 10 years ago

I believe it was 12,000 pounds. He asked for $1,500 from somebody he called in the Czech Republic.

[–] irishmaniac 15 years ago

He's still in London. He has a job now and a girlfriend and a flat. I think the film made him out to be worse then he really was. I knew him from film school and I thought he was really nice. You have to understand the culture differences between Iraq and the West. I think the filmakers were niave. Life is very different in the middle east. It's a completely different way of life there. I attended the London Film Academy and I found Muthana to be a really nice guy. I wished the director would of continued filming him as he really has his life together now. He seemed very happy the last time I met him.

I hope he keeps it up.

[–] kenyon-4 15 years ago

from - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0984213/board/nest/125513151

Update

Muthana Mohmed received five years asylum in the United Kingdom and is still living in London trying to make films.

Liev Schreiber’s film, Everything is Illuminated, was released to critical acclaim in 2005 by Warner Independent Pictures and garnered a number of awards for the first-time director.

The Universal Pictures science fiction/horror film, Doom, starring The Rock, opened in late 2005 in the United States and the United Kingdom. (The Rock is also known as actor Dwayne Johnson and is the man who paid for Muthana’s tuition at the London Film Academy.)

Documentary filmmaker Nina Davenport is living in New York City and is expecting her first child in December 2008.

[–] elainemay1 14 years ago

I also went to film school with Muthana in Fulham. The Muthana in the documentary was the Muthana I knew then.

His behaviour had nothing to do with clashing cultures or any other reason people have listed. It's how he is. And how alot of other people are I imagine. At film school he wanted the world, but wanted other people to get it for him. I hope he's open to learning and changing.

[–] roska-poika 10 years ago

Just saw this document and im intrested that what is he doing now in 2014? Its been 6 years from the original post so can anyone answer?

[–] roska-poika 10 years ago

Just saw this document and im intrested that what is he doing now in 2014? Its been 6 years from the original post so can anyone answer?