• Jamila Emami filming at a clinic in Kandahar      Jamila Emami
filming at a clinic in Kandahar  The Film  From July 2002 to
August 2003, 14 young women — several still in their teens —
trained as camera operators and video journalists at the AINA
Afghan Media and Culture Center in Kabul. These were the first
female journalists to be trained in Afghanistan for more than a
decade, and the first ever to be trained in digital media; most
of the trainees had never traveled outside Kabul, and had not
been able to study or pursue careers while the Taliban
controlled their country. Created as the culmination of this
unique training program, Afghanistan Unveiled contrasts the
harsh lives of the rural women of Afghanistan with those of the
film’s young camerawomen, who are experiencing newfound freedom
and opportunity while attempting to use their work to change the
condition of women in their country.  Traveling to rural regions
of Afghanistan, the filmmakers worked to gain the confidence and
trust of their intervie