Archive for July, 2009
NMC on Weekend Today in NYC August 2
Wow, we are going to be on NBC’s Weekend Today show on Sunday August 2 at 8 am. Producer/director Jennifer Maytorena Taylor and Hamza and Suliman Perez will talk about the incredibly positive community responses to NEW MUSLIM COOL as the film continues to show all across the country and world.
And perhaps for the first time ever that a Puerto Rican American Muslim hip-hop duo will perform on live tv, M-Team will perform LIVE for the NYC! The show will air LIVE in the NYC area and we’ll have it up on-line as fast as we can for folks in other parts of the country!
Streaming on PBS Extended by Popular Demand
We’ve had such strong interest in the film from national media (major announcement about that coming soon) and audiences alike, that P.O.V. and PBS have decided to extend the streaming for another few weeks. So from now until August 20, you can still log onto the P.O.V. website and check the film out.
If you do watch the film on-line for free, please consider buying the DVD for yourself or a friend, or for your community group to do a free screening.
With Ramadan coming up, NEW MUSLIM COOL will make a fantastic Eid gift and interfaith dialogue tool, and your support will help us launch our upcoming campus and jail screening tour and outreach campaign. We’re also donating a portion of each DVD sale to the community in Pittsburgh where we shot the film so your support will go extra far!
Hamza on Global Grind
We’ve been getting great press and blog coverage all over the world, thank you to all for covering the film and giving us so many positive reviews!
And now here is a really nice essay that Hamza himself just wrote for Russell Simmons’ website and hip-hop news portal Global Grind.
