Full Description
"What do you get when you ask your 92-year-old Nana and a 73-year-old man you've just met questions you've only just dared to dream of? You get answers more outrageous than you could have possible imagined." A young, gay Iraqi Jewish filmmaker takes a funny, intimate and charmingly unconventional look at three Iraqi Jewish lives.
Filmmaker Bio(s)
From 2008 Festival: Director, United States
Joe Balass is an independent filmmaker working in both fiction and documentary. He resides in Montreal where he operates a production company, Compass Productions Inc. In addition, he also works as a freelance editor, photographer and cameraman. He was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1966 and after escaping with his family at the age of four, he eventually settled in Canada. Balass has produced and directed a number of award-winning films and videos. He expresses a very spontaneous blend of seriousness and humour in his approach to filmmaking. Baghdad Twist is his most recent film. At present, Joe Balass is working on a number of documentary projects as well as a fiction feature.
