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The cover of the DVD release by Film Movement describes the film as "based on a compilation of true stories" and adds that it was "shot inside Tehran's century-old prison".
Dylan is often credited as the inventor of the "Grobn'm" film movement and in 2013 released their 18 minute short film "The Great Reverse Gratsby," a parody of The Great Gatsby set to be released on the same day as the Leonardo DiCaprio film.
In the early 1980s, he was involved with the L.A. Rebellion black film movement at UCLA, appearing in shorts by S. Torriano Berry (Rich, 1982) and Monona Wali (Grey Area, 1982).
His first screen role in his own right came in 1940 with Gli Ultimi Della Strada ("The Lowest Of The Low") directed by Domenico Paolella at Pisorno Studios in Tirrenia, an early attempt at the gritty social frankness later to develop into the Italian Neorealism film movement.
El Said is currently in the process of setting up, with Khalid Abdalla and others, Cimatheque, an alternative film centre that aims to offer services and space to help develop and incubate the independent film movement in Cairo through building networks, sharing resources and building an infra-structure for the alternative film platform.