How to make a film, with no money, while being bombed

From Jasmina "Mrs. Bruce Sterling" Tesanovic, in the current issue of MAKE magazine:

Back in 1999, while my hometown of Belgrade
was being blown up by 19 different countries, I was
writing and uploading a diary. One day, a producer
from German national TV phoned me. She'd been
reading my online journal (Diary of a Political Idiot)
and thought it might make a good film.

Unfortunately, since her country was so busy
bombing mine, she couldn't give me any practical
help. However, she thought that if my film somehow
got made, she could promote and distribute it, and
show it at film festivals.

Immediately, I said yes! What a great occasion
to make a meaningful European art film, without
those tiresome commercial restrictions, backers,
producers, and other artistic brakes that every
true cineaste fears!

First, I found a cameraman who had somehow
survived Bosnia with his equipment intact. He was
a Serbian CNN stringer, which was perfect since
everyone in 1999 thought that wars could only be
won by and/or through CNN.

PDF Link (via Bruce Sterling's blog)