Last weekend at the Toronto Film Festival, I sat down for a longish interview with Suroosh Alvi and Eddy Moretti, directors of the excellent documentary Heavy Metal in Baghdad. We’ll have a lot more from that interview in an upcoming installment of FilmCouch, but below you’ll find a preview. Acrassicauda, the band depicted in the film, are currently living in exile (and in extreme poverty) in Syria, and are in danger of being deported back to Iraq. In this clip, Alvi and Moretti explain what the filmmakers are doing to help Acrassicauda escape their current situation and live out their heavy metal dreams.
