Trivia

Manuel de Coco has filmed "Unknown Land" using people from the locality of Socotra, who had no knowledge of the script but only the film's general idea. His intention was not to let them know the details of the script, so that they would simply go along with the idea of the movie. Rehearsals with these individuals took place only a few minutes before each scene was shot. This allowed them to feel comfortable and to improvise freely. In this way they could remain simple and the authenticity of the story could be preserved, rather than having them interpret roles as cinematic heroes who were simply delivering the script.

Manuel de Coco is a risk-taker. Having filmed in Yemen during the Arab Spring - for the banned 2012 feature film "Unknown Land" - and putting himself in danger, it was no surprise that the 47-year-old filmmaker would jump into filming "Invisible World" undercover in Tibet and Palestine. The director has spent the last 17 years working on this docu-fiction.

In Quentin Tarantino's "Inglorious Basterds", in the scene where Brad Pitt and his team pose as Italian filmmakers, the name that Omar Doom's character takes is De Coco.