Terry Gilliam keen for studio tour

December 11, 2008 Day 1 at the fifth Dubai International Film Festival and Lifetime Achievement Award honoree Terry Gilliam already is looking for the underbelly of the glitzy emirate. [...] seriously, the widely traveled Monty Python veteran who years ago shot "Life of Brian" in Tunisia, is visiting Dubai for the first time and also plans a visit its giant new studios to "check out their attitude toward funding." Gilliam said he had no idea if his films were known in the Middle East, no sense of the audience and that he had no desire to take young filmmakers under his wing.

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