Dear friends and supporters:
Assalamualaikum to you all.
After 12 countries,
9 languages,
5 1/2 years,
and the incredible support of so many of you..
Director Parvez Sharma and Producer Sandi DuBowski are
proud to announce the World Premiere of our film, A
Jihad for Love, at The Toronto International Film
Festival, September 6-16, 2007.
We are thrilled for such a prestigious global launch
of this challenging work.
I (Sandi) am extremely proud of Parvez's incredibly
hard work over the years and often filming at great
risk to make the film visually stunning, emotionally
moving, daring and challenging. I (Parvez) am proud
and honored to have worked with Sandi as my producer,
who has brought a wealth of experience and resources
to this project and shown the way forward to so many
of us, with his previous film Trembling Before G-d
which became a worldwide movement and a call to
action.
We are living now in challenging times and both of us
believe A Jihad for Love has to do justice to the
lives of the subjects who so courageously came forward
to tell their stories despite enormous risks. We have
always intended that the film has profound impact in
the world.
It is critical that we raise the funds to reach the
finish line and with two weeks away we have very
little time. Your contribution can truly make the
difference in our ability to complete the work and
World Premiere a film of the highest quality – in
sound, image, titles, music. It will also allow us to
assemble the team that will maximize the opportunity
of this Premiere for Muslim dialogue and outreach,
press attention, and the presence of those from around
the world who are featured in the film to join us
stage.
Our goal is to raise $25K with this letter by
appealing to you who have been part of this creation.
We welcome all personal donors towards this major
completion and launch. All gifts are tax-deductible.
Please visit
http://www.hartleyfoundation.org/download/donationform.pdf.
We are open to any ideas and connections you have to
support us in reaching this our goal.
And please join us in Toronto!
The dates and venues of our screenings in Toronto are
as follows:
Public, September 9th, 8.30 PM, Cumberland 3
Public, September 11th, 1.15 PM, Royal Ontario Museum
Public, September 15th, 11.59 PM, Varsity 7
Press & Industry, September 10th, 1:30 PM, Cumberland
3
Press & Industry, September 12, 11.30 AM, Varsity VIP
3
Visit http://www.tiff07.ca for information.
Sandi is also on a Toronto Film Festival Industry
Initiatives panel on Web 2.0 and Social Networking on
September 9th. Visit
http://www.tiff07.ca/industry/industryinitiatives/newsandviews/
We invite every one of you- Muslim and non-Muslim - to
stand behind this incredible and courageous film. The
most immediate way to do that right now will be to
share this email widely with friends both in Toronto
and elsewhere, on email lists, on social networking
sites and throughout the Internet universe.
We have always believed that the end of the creative
process on a film, is just the beginning. And now we
launch into the next phase of this remarkable journey
with all of you by our side. We hope to see you all at
premieres across the world in the years to come.
Best,
Parvez Sharma and Sandi DuBowski
Director and Producer, A Jihad for Love
info@ajihadforlove.com
www.ajihadforlove.com
P.S. With utmost generosity, one of our supporters,
Khuram Hussein has organized a Toronto Kick-Off Gala
in The Fire Island Pines on August 25th from 4-6 PM –
please email us for more details.
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