Cameras on a Roll in Iraq

With the Saddam Regime gone, the people of Iraq are starting to experience something most western civilisations take for granted.

Cameras on a Roll in Iraq:

"BAGHDAD — Iraqi director Akram Kamel is racing against the sun to finish shooting a Baghdad street scene for his television miniserie"

Imagine that they are finally able to see events live, unfolding before them from the comfort of their homes. Education through televised media is a rapid vehicle for the recovery of a peoples spirit and provides a scope of what can be acheived and is available to them, no doubt alot of eyes have opened to what can be acheived.

"At first, people were so eager to see the outside world," said Dahan of Al Sharqiyah, the satellite channel which now only airs Iraqi-produced programming. "A year later they were filled up, and now they want to see something local."