Not exactly hot off the press this, but I went to see Jonathan Demme’s The Agronomist at Stranger Than Fiction last Tuesday and the Q&A was fantastic. Jean Dominique’s widow, Michèle Montas, got a highly deserved standing ovation. Danny Glover walked in and joined the group on stage and Montas proceeded to have everyone in tears talking about how the team at Radio Haiti-Inter convinced her to keep the station running for three years after Dominique’s death (until an assassination…

Stranger Than Fiction’s Fall Season launched last week at the IFC Center with Nina Davenport’s Operation Filmmaker. The story starts simply enough: shortly after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, MTV aired a documentary about Muthana Mohmed, a young Baghdad film student. Liev Schreiber saw the MTV piece while preparing to direct his first feature, Everything is Illuminated, and decided to invite Muthana to be an intern on the film. Davenport was hired to document the feel-good experience. But nothing goes…