# Guerilla filmmaking

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** movies\
**Created:** [March 21, 2026, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guerilla-filmmaking/1028665 "2026-03-21T19:54:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2026, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guerilla-filmmaking/1028665/21 "2026-03-22T15:21:27Z")

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I’ve often wondered about Help and Hard Days Night.

The girls chasing the Boys down streets looks real. And the running around on the airfield thing looks like it might have been without permission(or actual Direction really).

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**Post date:** [March 22, 2026, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guerilla-filmmaking/1028665/22 "2026-03-22T16:50:30Z")

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> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> The girls chasing the Boys down streets looks real.

Unrelated trivia: one of those boys was a young Phil Collins.

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**Post date:** [March 22, 2026, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guerilla-filmmaking/1028665/23 "2026-03-22T16:51:55Z")

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Much of Kevin Smith’s _Clerks_ was shot guerrilla style. Smith worked at the convenience store in real life, and had the owner’s permission to shoot inside the store after hours. The material shot elsewhere was generally without permits.

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**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2026, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guerilla-filmmaking/1028665/24 "2026-03-22T22:32:40Z")

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Jafar Panahi, director of Oscar-nominated **It Was Just an Accident** is well-known for his guerilla filmmaking ever since he was banned from filmmaking by the Iranian government.

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**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guerilla-filmmaking/1028665/25 "2026-10-29T00:03:55Z")

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And now:

**Iran sentences acclaimed film director Jafar Panahi to new prison term after his return home**

> Iran has sentenced acclaimed director [Jafar Panahi](https://apnews.com/article/jafar-panahi-interview-it-was-just-an-accident-f0e8159ee247a7f66f35d5f67a931409) to five years and one month in prison, following his return to the country earlier this year, after the start of the [U.S. and Israeli attacks on the Islamic Republic](https://apnews.com/hub/iran).
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> The Tehran court also ordered the confiscation of Panahi’s “movable and immovable assets,” his lawyer Mostafa Nili told the reformist news site Emtedad in an interview late Tuesday.
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> Nili did not say what Panahi was convicted of. But the director, who returned to Iran in March, had been previously convicted of “propaganda activities against the system.”

[https://apnews.com/article/iran-director-panahi-convicted-tehran-fe256f249bfea03ca368125dcf0cfa0e](https://apnews.com/article/iran-director-panahi-convicted-tehran-fe256f249bfea03ca368125dcf0cfa0e)

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