A Jihad For Love Premieres in New York on May 21st. BECOME A LOVE JIHADI! Dear Friends,
Assalamualaikum to all of you. The US theatrical release of A Jihad for Love launches at IFC Center in New York on Wednesday, May 21st! Buy your ticket online at http://www.ifccenter.com After Premieres in 15 countries, being banned in Singapore, selling out everywhere including India and Turkey and five international awards, the film comes to the U.S. and NYC. Please bring friends to see this incredible work directed by me and produced by myself and Sandi DuBowski. This film is important for so many reasons. It explores many key issues of our time including Islamophobia, homophobia, religious orthodoxy, immigration and asylum, human rights violations, the intersections of faith and sexuality. An amazing digital Ijtihad (independent reasoning, in Islam) has already been taking place on my blog where thousands have been writing in from across the Islamic universe and from countries where the hunger to see this film is acute. Small numbers of trusted friends have already organized at least two private screenings in Pakistan. Our Jihad for tolerance, peace and understanding has only just begun. In a time when documentaries are increasingly finding it hard to get distribution, we are fortunate to be booked across the country and to launch a Canadian theatrical release. We need people to show up during our NYC theatrical run in very large numbers. Bookers across the country will be looking at the success of the film at the NYC Box Office to determine its life everywhere else in the country. If you come the first five days, you can significantly impact the film's theatrical life in the U.S. and other countries. A remarkable team of human rights activists, Muslims from all walks of life, key thinkers and intellectuals, prominent organizations and everyone who is interested in change in this crucial election year have joined us as LOVE JIHADIS. This is your chance! Joining me and producer Sandi DuBowski in the theater are Imam Muhsin Hendricks, the first openly gay imam from Cape Town, South Africa and Mazen from Egypt/France, featured stars of the film and Faisal Alam, the founder of Al-Fatiha. We will turn the cinema into a town hall - for debate, change and transformation. Click here for our dazzling line-up of Q & A's and forums on Islam, Human Rights, South Asian Sexualities, Interfaith… Looking forward to seeing you there! Read what Time Out New York had to say about the film. Best, Parvez Sharma
Director/Producer, A Jihad for Love
www.ajihadforlove.blogspot.com Sandi DuBowski
Producer, A Jihad for Love
Director/Producer, Trembling Before G-d
*Please feel free to use the film description below to help spread the word online. A Jihad for Love U.S. Theatrical Premiere at IFC Center Opens May 21st – Two Weeks Only "LIFTS THE VEIL OF SECRECY...FRANKLY BRAVE!"
-NPR Talk of the Nation "REVEALING AND MOVING...A GIFTED FILMMAKER!"
-Wall Street Journal "COURAGEOUS!"
-The Guardian Fourteen centuries after the revelation of the holy Qur’an to the Prophet Muhammad, Islam today is the world’s second largest and fastest growing religion. Muslim gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma travels the many worlds of this dynamic faith, discovering the stories of its most unlikely storytellers: lesbian and gay Muslims. Produced by Sharma and Sandi DuBowski (director of the award-winning Trembling Before G-d), A Jihad for Love was filmed over 5 years in 12 countries and 9 languages and comes from the heart of Islam. Looking beyond a hostile and war-torn present, it reclaims the Islamic concept of a greater Jihad, whose true meaning is akin to ‘an inner struggle’ or ‘to strive in the path of God.’ In doing so the film and its remarkable subjects move beyond the narrow concept of ‘Jihad’ as holy war. www.ajihadforlove.com Buy your ticket at www.ifccenter.com.
Box Office: 212.924.7771 323 Sixth Avenue (at W. 3rd St.) | | Kick-off Bollywood dance party this Saturday night, May 17th for A Jihad for Love – visit www.sholayevents.com. Movie poster and T-shirt giveaways! | | May 21st - May 29th Show Times: 11:20am, 1:15pm, 3:10pm, 5:05pm, 7:00pm and 9:30pm Q & A's and forums with Parvez, Sandi, Muhsin, Mazen, Faisal, and others after 7pm & 9:30pm shows Wednesday, May 21st, 7pm
Opening Night Premiere Thursday, May 22nd, 7pm
Special evening with Sholay Productions and Al-Fatiha Friday, May 23rd, 7pm
Dialogue with Progressive Muslims Meet Up Group Saturday, May 24th, 5:05pm, 7pm, 9:30pm
Human Rights Watch and Scott Long present in association with A Jihad for Love: Before the Crusade Passes By: Trapped in the middle of a "clash of civilizations." Sunday, May 25th, 7pm
Q & A on Films For Change
Tuesday, May 27th, 7pm
Interfaith dialogue with Imam Muhsin Hendricks and
Bishop Zachary Jones, Rev. Edgard Danielsen-Morales,
Rabbi Steve Greenberg, Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum; co-sponsored by Unity Fellowship Church, MCC, CBST
Wednesday, May 28th, 7pm
Q & A on HIV/AIDS and Islam with GMHC Thursday, May 29th, 7pm
Panel on South Asian, Diaspora, gender and immigration issues; sponsored by IAAC and Breakthrough
Click here for more! | | Get Involved! Here are some ways you can support this film: Right Now: Hit the streets: Support The Cause: | | To make a donation, please visit: www.ajihadforlove.com and feel free to contact us and share any ideas of foundations, donors or fundraisers. | | Join our Facebook Groups, A Jihad for Love and Films That Change The World And visit ajihadforlove.com, ajihadforlove.blogspot.com and filmsthatchangetheworld.com |
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