Invitation
Jihad for love
Parvez Sharma
Sandi DuBowski
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IAAC & Breakthrough present
Special Screening & Party for Parvez Sharma’s A JIHAD FOR LOVE:
May 29, 2008 |
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May 29th, 2008 at 7 pm
Post-screening discussion with Director Parvez Sharma, Producer Sandi Dubowski
Gayatri Gopinath, Aroon Shivdasani, Aseem Chabra and Madhuri Mohindar.
At IFC Center,
323SixthAvenue(atW.3rdSt.),
www.ifccenter.com
BoxOffice: 212.924.7771
After party at the Leela Lounge.
1 West 3rd Street
(Between Broadway & Mercer)
New York, NY 10012
Tele : 212-529-2059 |
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About the Film: Fourteen centuries after the revelation of the holy Qur’anto the Prophet Muhammad, Islam today is the world’s secondlargest and fastest grow-ing religion. Muslim gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma travels the many worlds of this dynamic faith, discovering the storiesof its most unlikely storytellers: lesbian and gay Muslims.
About the Director: Parvez Sharma is a Muslim gay filmmaker born and raised in India. For three years, Sharma worked as a broadcast journalist for Asia's premiere and most watched 24-hour news network, the Star News Channel/NDTV, covering major assignments across the Indian subcontinent and specializing in investigative/human rights stories and political profiles. He was the Assistant Director for the award-winning feature, Dance of the Wind, produced by Pandora Film in Germany and NFDC India with director Rajan Khosa which won awards at the London, Rotterdam and Nantes Film Festivals. In 2005, he was a Producer at Democracy Now!, the nationally broadcast radio and television program which airs on 225 stations across North America with award-winning host, Amy Goodman. He produced, edited and did additional camera for the DVD of Peter Friedman’s Sundance Grand Jury Award winning film Silverlake Life. Parvez Sharma received his bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Presidency College, University of Calcutta (India) and three Masters degrees: Mass Communication (Film and Television) from India’s premier MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia University; Broadcast Journalism (Masters Diploma) from the University of Wales College of Cardiff, UK; and Film and Video from American University’s School of Communication. He has taught Indian film and other media courses at American University’s Department of Anthropology and its School of Communication in Washington, DC.
About the Producer: Sandi DuBowski is a filmmaker and writer based in New York. His feature documentary, Trembling Before G-d, was in theatrical release in the United States, Israel, Canada, Germany, UK, and South Africa (in the U.S. with New Yorker Films). Trembling Before G-d was launched at New York's Film Forum to incredible audience, critical, and box office response and opened in over 80 U.S. cities. Trembling had a World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and has been the recipient of twelve awards including The Teddy Award for Best Documentary at the Berlin Film Festival, The Mayor's Prize for the Jewish Experience at the Jerusalem Film Festival, The GLAAD Media Award for Best Documentary, The Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at OUTFEST Los Angeles, and The Council on Foundations Henry Hampton Award for Excellence in Film and Media. The film was nominated for the Independent Spirit Awards for the IFC/Directv Truer Than Fiction Award. The L.A. Weekly named it one of the 10 Best Films of the Year. It was broadcast on BBC, ARTE, Israel's Keshet/Channel Two, The Sundance Channel, HBO Latin America, Australia's ABC, Poland's Canal Plus, Canada's The Documentary Channel, and other TV stations. An estimated 8 million people saw the film worldwide. Feature stories on the project have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, Filmmaker Magazine, The Jerusalem Post, The Globe and Mail, CNN, and BBC News among other print and media outlets.
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“REVEALING AND MOVING...
A GIFTED FILMMAKER!”
-Wall Street Journal
“COURAGEOUS!”
-The Guar ian
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