Exclusive: Talk show reunions, heartland justice, stateside backlash to the 1970s Iranian hostage crisis, and faith vs a child’s transgender identity are among the stories that make up the second annual Muslim List.
The collaboration between The Black List, the Muslim Public Affairs Council Hollywood Bureau and Pillars Fund has once again selected 10 writers out of the hundreds of submission received for this latest apportionment. The deadline for the second Muslim List was February 28.
First announced back in September 2020, the List aims to amplify the depth and range of voices and perspectives of Muslim scribes and storytellers on both the big and small screen. So, producers, agents and A-listers, see the full list of the 2022 coterie below.
“I said last year that it was an honor to partner with both Mpac and Pillars Fund and it’s doubly so this year,” stated Black List boss Franklin Leonard today. “These...
The collaboration between The Black List, the Muslim Public Affairs Council Hollywood Bureau and Pillars Fund has once again selected 10 writers out of the hundreds of submission received for this latest apportionment. The deadline for the second Muslim List was February 28.
First announced back in September 2020, the List aims to amplify the depth and range of voices and perspectives of Muslim scribes and storytellers on both the big and small screen. So, producers, agents and A-listers, see the full list of the 2022 coterie below.
“I said last year that it was an honor to partner with both Mpac and Pillars Fund and it’s doubly so this year,” stated Black List boss Franklin Leonard today. “These...
- 7/26/2022
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Less than a week after Empire co-creator Danny Strong and longtime director and executive producer Sanaa Hamri reunited on a Taraji P. Henson-led spinoff of the hip hop drama, the duo is back together again for a dramedy on being young, Arab and female in today’s America.
Penned by Dina Shihabi and Rolla Selbak and in development at the Disney-owned Freeform, Ya Bint focuses on a trio of pals who have moved from the Middle East to Los Angeles. The series will follow friends Maya, Jumana, and Lara through their navigation and experiences across cultures and expectations in the often anything-goes City of Angels, and will be executive produced by Strong and Hamri under their respective overall deals with 20th Century Fox TV.
Tangier, Morocco-born Hamri will helm Ya Bint, whose title is based on an Arabic term intended to get a girl’s interest, with Strong...
Penned by Dina Shihabi and Rolla Selbak and in development at the Disney-owned Freeform, Ya Bint focuses on a trio of pals who have moved from the Middle East to Los Angeles. The series will follow friends Maya, Jumana, and Lara through their navigation and experiences across cultures and expectations in the often anything-goes City of Angels, and will be executive produced by Strong and Hamri under their respective overall deals with 20th Century Fox TV.
Tangier, Morocco-born Hamri will helm Ya Bint, whose title is based on an Arabic term intended to get a girl’s interest, with Strong...
- 7/30/2020
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Freeform is developing a dramedy from two of Empire's executive producers about a trio of Arab American women in Los Angeles.
Sanaa Hamri and Danny Strong — who are also involved in an Empire spinoff in the works at Fox — will serve as EPs on Ya Bint, from writers Dina Shihabi and Rolla Selbak. The title is an Arabic expression that loosely translates to "Hey girl."
Ya Bint centers on three best friends — Maya, Jumana and Lara — who have moved from their homes in the Middle East to Los Angeles. The potential series follows them as they discover ...
Sanaa Hamri and Danny Strong — who are also involved in an Empire spinoff in the works at Fox — will serve as EPs on Ya Bint, from writers Dina Shihabi and Rolla Selbak. The title is an Arabic expression that loosely translates to "Hey girl."
Ya Bint centers on three best friends — Maya, Jumana and Lara — who have moved from their homes in the Middle East to Los Angeles. The potential series follows them as they discover ...
- 7/30/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The premiere post-tiff destination (September 20-25th) in the film community and a major leg up for narrative and non-fiction films in development, the Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) announced a whopping 140 projects selected for the Project Forum at the upcoming Ifp Independent Film Week. Made up of several sections (Rbc’s Emerging Storytellers program, No Borders International Co-Production Market and Spotlight on Documentaries), we find latest updates from the likes of docu-helmers Doug Block (112 Weddings) and Lana Wilson (After Tiller), and among the narrative items we find headliners in Andrew Haigh (coming off the well received 45 Years), Sophie Barthes (Cold Souls and Madame Bovary), Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty), Lawrence Michael Levine (Wild Canaries), Jorge Michel Grau (We Are What We Are), Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal (Stranger Things) and new faces in Sundance’s large family in Charles Poekel (Christmas, Again) and Olivia Newman (First Match). Here...
- 7/22/2015
- by admin
- IONCINEMA.com
Earlier this month, it was announced as one of 15 finalists for the latest round of the San Francisco Film Society (Sffs) and Kenneth Rainin Foundation (Krf) Filmmaking Grants initiative, in the "Preproduction" category. Writer/director Joseph Talbot's "The Last Black Man in San Francisco," produced by Rolla Selbak, follows Jimmie Fails, a young African American "who dreams of buying back the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Now living in the city’s last, dwindling black neighborhood with his oddball best friend, Prentice, they search for belonging in the rapidly changing city that seems to have left them...
- 4/28/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
If you’re looking for a comprehensive overview of the not so distant future in American indie film, a reliable sampling is usually found in the bi-annual Sffs / Krf Filmmaking Grants finalist (and future winners) lists. Grants will be awarded next month, but this finalists’ list overviews a look into the 2016-17 pool of talent and feature films. Among the trio of items that are in various stages of production and we’re keeping tabs on, we have Ian Olds (docu helmer of Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi) who moved into fiction feature filmmaking with The Fixer. Produced by Caroline von Kuhn (Camden Int. Film Fest Managing Director and docu field expert), this is said to include supporting players in the shape of Melissa Leo and James Franco. And speaking of Franco…, Travis Mathews from Interior. Leather Bar. fame has Oscillate Wildly next in line. Beasts of the Southern Wild...
- 4/10/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The San Francisco Film Society (Sffs) and Kenneth Rainin Foundation (Krf) have selected the finallists for the latest round of Sffs / Krf Filmmaking Grants.
Up to $300,000 will be awarded to one or more narrative feature film projects at various stages of production. Sffs / Krf Filmmaking Grants are awarded twice annually to narrative feature films that will have “significant economic or professional impact on the Bay Area filmmaking community.”
To date more than $2.8m has been awarded since the launch of the Film Society’s flagship grant programme in 2009. Winners of the spring 2015 Sffs / Krf Filmmaking Grants will be announced in May.
Spring 2015 Sffs / Krf Filmmaking Grant Finallists
Blustar – Stella Kyriakopoulos, co-writer-director and Margaret Shin, co-writer
Screenwriting
Chickenshit – Jessica dela Merced, writer-director
Screenwriting
The Fixer – Ian Olds, writer-director, and Caroline von Kuhn, producer
Production
Freeland – Mario Furloni and Kate McLean, co-writer-directors
Screenwriting
Jones – Sally El Hosaini, writer-director
Screenwriting
The Last Black Man In San Francisco– Joseph Talbot, writer-director...
Up to $300,000 will be awarded to one or more narrative feature film projects at various stages of production. Sffs / Krf Filmmaking Grants are awarded twice annually to narrative feature films that will have “significant economic or professional impact on the Bay Area filmmaking community.”
To date more than $2.8m has been awarded since the launch of the Film Society’s flagship grant programme in 2009. Winners of the spring 2015 Sffs / Krf Filmmaking Grants will be announced in May.
Spring 2015 Sffs / Krf Filmmaking Grant Finallists
Blustar – Stella Kyriakopoulos, co-writer-director and Margaret Shin, co-writer
Screenwriting
Chickenshit – Jessica dela Merced, writer-director
Screenwriting
The Fixer – Ian Olds, writer-director, and Caroline von Kuhn, producer
Production
Freeland – Mario Furloni and Kate McLean, co-writer-directors
Screenwriting
Jones – Sally El Hosaini, writer-director
Screenwriting
The Last Black Man In San Francisco– Joseph Talbot, writer-director...
- 4/9/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Tags: Kiss Her I'm Famoustellofilmsweb seriesThe Real L WordWAPIMDbTracy RyersonRolla SelbakIlea Matthews
What Ben & Jerry's is to breakup snack food, Kiss Her, I'm Famous is to breakup television. Only, it's not really on your TV. Tello Films' new web series, which stars The Real L Word's Tracy Ryerson and was created by Three Veils' Rolla Selbak, is a satirical semi-love story that is sweet and delicious and will have you reaching for a second helping.
The five-episode series follows two best friends who decide to cope with their own break-ups by making a sex tape that will make them famous while making their exes "regret their shit choices." You know where the story is heading right from the start, but watching it unfold is a treat.
I confess to not being drawn into the premise when I first heard it. I've never seen a full episode of The Real L Word,...
What Ben & Jerry's is to breakup snack food, Kiss Her, I'm Famous is to breakup television. Only, it's not really on your TV. Tello Films' new web series, which stars The Real L Word's Tracy Ryerson and was created by Three Veils' Rolla Selbak, is a satirical semi-love story that is sweet and delicious and will have you reaching for a second helping.
The five-episode series follows two best friends who decide to cope with their own break-ups by making a sex tape that will make them famous while making their exes "regret their shit choices." You know where the story is heading right from the start, but watching it unfold is a treat.
I confess to not being drawn into the premise when I first heard it. I've never seen a full episode of The Real L Word,...
- 4/29/2013
- by stuntdouble
- AfterEllen.com
Tags: Naya Riveramarriage equalityLana Del ReyCate BlanchettIMDbFranceThe Jeff Probst Show
Good afternoon everyone!
Happy birthday to Jamie King, Judy Davis, Valerie Bertinelli, Jan Hooks and Joyce "Janet Wood" DeWitt!
Rave reviews are in for Fiona Shaw’s performance in The Testament of Mary. Shaw’s one-woman show can be seen at the Walter Kerr Theatre in New York through June 16.
I'm loving Lana Del Rey's new song for The Great Gatsby soundtrack. What do you think?
On yesterday’s Jeff Probst Show, Ufc Champion Ronda Rousey demonstrated her infamous "armbar" move on yours truly. (Fast forward to the 5:30 mark to see Rousey kick my ass.)
A Pennsylvania principal has banned a trans teen from running for prom king. Issak Oliver Wolfe, a senior at Red Lion Area Senior High School in York, Pa, has been widely embraced by his classmates and teachers and opted to run for prom king.
Good afternoon everyone!
Happy birthday to Jamie King, Judy Davis, Valerie Bertinelli, Jan Hooks and Joyce "Janet Wood" DeWitt!
Rave reviews are in for Fiona Shaw’s performance in The Testament of Mary. Shaw’s one-woman show can be seen at the Walter Kerr Theatre in New York through June 16.
I'm loving Lana Del Rey's new song for The Great Gatsby soundtrack. What do you think?
On yesterday’s Jeff Probst Show, Ufc Champion Ronda Rousey demonstrated her infamous "armbar" move on yours truly. (Fast forward to the 5:30 mark to see Rousey kick my ass.)
A Pennsylvania principal has banned a trans teen from running for prom king. Issak Oliver Wolfe, a senior at Red Lion Area Senior High School in York, Pa, has been widely embraced by his classmates and teachers and opted to run for prom king.
- 4/23/2013
- by Bridget McManus
- AfterEllen.com
★★☆☆☆ The second feature from director Rolla Selbak, Three Veils (2011) tells the interconnected stories of three young Muslim women living in the Us. The film opens with the story of Leila (Mercedes Masöhn), a young girl who finds herself in an arranged marriage with the hot-tempered Ali (Sammy Sheik). We also encounter her troubled friend Nikki (Sheetal Sheth), who we later discover has suffered a family tragedy. Lastly there is Amira (Angela Zahara), a devout Muslim who is struggling to come to terms with her sexuality.
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- 7/31/2012
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Three Veils offers a poignant, dramatic tale of three young Middle-Eastern American women and their colliding lives. Occasionally, the film paints its settings and characters with a rather broad brush, and the script contains uneven moments, but it’s an earnest, entertaining and heartfelt production.
Leila (Mercedes Masöhn) is the pretty, stable “girl next door.” We begin with her staring into a mirror, her voiceover explaining that she’s just gotten engaged (by way of arranged marriage) and all she can think about is her wedding night – specifically her first time with husband-to-be Ali. We watch her prepare for the wedding, host a swinging engagement party and begin to go on awkward dates with Ali, the most aggressively awful kisser of all time.
She relates her adventures in make out purgatory to Nikki (Sheetal Sheth), her free-spirited best friend (and the second of our leading ladies). Slinky, sexy, and perpetually guzzling booze,...
Leila (Mercedes Masöhn) is the pretty, stable “girl next door.” We begin with her staring into a mirror, her voiceover explaining that she’s just gotten engaged (by way of arranged marriage) and all she can think about is her wedding night – specifically her first time with husband-to-be Ali. We watch her prepare for the wedding, host a swinging engagement party and begin to go on awkward dates with Ali, the most aggressively awful kisser of all time.
She relates her adventures in make out purgatory to Nikki (Sheetal Sheth), her free-spirited best friend (and the second of our leading ladies). Slinky, sexy, and perpetually guzzling booze,...
- 4/22/2011
- by Danielle Riendeau
- AfterEllen.com
As the writer and director of Three Veils, a few common questions I get about the film are “Is this movie based on a true story?” or “How was it working with the lovely and (insert your favorite saucy term) Sheetal Sheth?” However, the first question I inevitably get is “Excuse me, are you crazy?”
I suppose one must be crazy to attempt to make a film in this day and age about young Arab women — who are Muslim — who go through controversial subject matters such as arranged marriage, forbidden love. And for creating one of the first narrative films to ever feature the struggles of an Arab, Muslim Lesbian.
When I first started writing the script, I admit I was anxious. I didn’t want to offend any particular group, or make unwelcome enemies, especially of the threatening kind. Of course, that goal proved to be mostly hopeless as...
I suppose one must be crazy to attempt to make a film in this day and age about young Arab women — who are Muslim — who go through controversial subject matters such as arranged marriage, forbidden love. And for creating one of the first narrative films to ever feature the struggles of an Arab, Muslim Lesbian.
When I first started writing the script, I admit I was anxious. I didn’t want to offend any particular group, or make unwelcome enemies, especially of the threatening kind. Of course, that goal proved to be mostly hopeless as...
- 4/8/2011
- by Rolla Selbak
- AfterEllen.com
By Caroline J. Nelson
(April 2011)
Running April 6-10, the San Francisco International Women’s Film Festival is in its seventh year of celebrating female filmmakers. Throughout the week, there will be screenings of films directed and co-directed by women followed by a time for questions and answers with the filmmakers as well as events honoring them.
The festival opens tonight with “Grace, Milly, Lucy … Child Soldiers,” a film by Raymonde Provencher about three young girls who are abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda and forced to become child soldiers. Over the course of five days, 58 films (seven features and 51 shorts) from 11 different countries will be showcased.
This year, the festival has a huge local filmmaker presence including “Opal” directed by Dina Ciraulo, “Trust: Second Acts in Young Lives” by Nancy Kelly, and “Atomic Mom” by M.T. Silvia. Additional films to look out for include “Imani” by Caroline Kamya...
(April 2011)
Running April 6-10, the San Francisco International Women’s Film Festival is in its seventh year of celebrating female filmmakers. Throughout the week, there will be screenings of films directed and co-directed by women followed by a time for questions and answers with the filmmakers as well as events honoring them.
The festival opens tonight with “Grace, Milly, Lucy … Child Soldiers,” a film by Raymonde Provencher about three young girls who are abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda and forced to become child soldiers. Over the course of five days, 58 films (seven features and 51 shorts) from 11 different countries will be showcased.
This year, the festival has a huge local filmmaker presence including “Opal” directed by Dina Ciraulo, “Trust: Second Acts in Young Lives” by Nancy Kelly, and “Atomic Mom” by M.T. Silvia. Additional films to look out for include “Imani” by Caroline Kamya...
- 4/6/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
By Caroline J. Nelson
(April 2011)
Running April 6-10, the San Francisco International Women’s Film Festival is in its seventh year of celebrating female filmmakers. Throughout the week, there will be screenings of films directed and co-directed by women followed by a time for questions and answers with the filmmakers as well as events honoring them.
The festival opens tonight with “Grace, Milly, Lucy … Child Soldiers,” a film by Raymonde Provencher about three young girls who are abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda and forced to become child soldiers. Over the course of five days, 58 films (seven features and 51 shorts) from 11 different countries will be showcased.
This year, the festival has a huge local filmmaker presence including “Opal” directed by Dina Ciraulo, “Trust: Second Acts in Young Lives” by Nancy Kelly, and “Atomic Mom” by M.T. Silvia. Additional films to look out for include “Imani” by Caroline Kamya...
(April 2011)
Running April 6-10, the San Francisco International Women’s Film Festival is in its seventh year of celebrating female filmmakers. Throughout the week, there will be screenings of films directed and co-directed by women followed by a time for questions and answers with the filmmakers as well as events honoring them.
The festival opens tonight with “Grace, Milly, Lucy … Child Soldiers,” a film by Raymonde Provencher about three young girls who are abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda and forced to become child soldiers. Over the course of five days, 58 films (seven features and 51 shorts) from 11 different countries will be showcased.
This year, the festival has a huge local filmmaker presence including “Opal” directed by Dina Ciraulo, “Trust: Second Acts in Young Lives” by Nancy Kelly, and “Atomic Mom” by M.T. Silvia. Additional films to look out for include “Imani” by Caroline Kamya...
- 4/6/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Actress Sheetal Sheth is no stranger to controversy. She made her debut in the film Abcd , playing a promiscuous young woman struggling with the ties of family and tradition. It garnered a lot of attention from press and audiences , both positive and negative. The Indian American beauty held her own against Albert Brooks in Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, she fell in love with actress Lisa Ray in Shamim Sarif's beloved films The World Unseen and I Can't Think Straight. She also bested me during a pillow fight on my Logo show Brunch with Bridget. (I totally let her win!)
Sheth is dealing with controversy once again with her latest film, Three Veils. The films follows three Middle Eastern women and who deal with abuse, rape and struggles with their sexuality. The script was originally boycotted but was saved thanks to the efforts of the film's director and producer.
Sheth is dealing with controversy once again with her latest film, Three Veils. The films follows three Middle Eastern women and who deal with abuse, rape and struggles with their sexuality. The script was originally boycotted but was saved thanks to the efforts of the film's director and producer.
- 3/31/2011
- by Bridget McManus
- AfterEllen.com
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