Archive for December, 2009
Great Review
Heather Brown of the on-line Feminist Review did a really lovely piece on New Muslim Cool recently. Here’s an excerpt:
“Without giving too much away, Taylor’s eighty-six-minute film brings Hamza’s journey as a husband, father, son, brother, artist, and man of faith into your living room in a way that will fully engross and inspire reflection—regardless of where you are coming from spiritually.”
Read the full review here.
Cool picture
Nice pic taken by SF-based photographer Steve Rhodes at the San Francisco International Film Festival in May of this year, at our standing-room only panel discussion called “Truth, Youth, and the New Muslim Cool.” It was so great that the Festival hosted this event after our sold-out premiere screening in the big house at the Sundance Kabuki Cinema!
This shot shows filmmaker Raeshma Razvi, artist and activist Hamza Pérez, imam and musician Yassir Chadley, and filmmaker Mustafa Davis. Writer Yahsmin Binti BoBo, NMC director Jennifer Maytorena Taylor, and NMC Senior Advisor Munir Jiwa were there too.
Around the World
It’s been a busy few months for the New Muslim Cool team as we’ve fanned out around the world to share the film and have conversations with an incredibly diverse array of audiences in places as far-flung as Russia, Italy, Philadelphia, Boston, London, Amsterdam, Rochester, and more.
December will see the film screened in Los Angeles and Jerusalem, and in January we’ll be screening in Dhaka, Bangladesh and New York City with TONS of screenings and events coming up all throughout 2010.
As soon as we catch our breath we’ll post field reports and photos from some of the places we’ve been visiting so check back soon.
