Exclusive: Sony Pictures International Productions has acquired global rights to the award-winning comedy Americanish, marking the feature directorial debut of Iman Zawahry. Specifics as to plans for the pic’s distribution have not yet been disclosed.
Written by Aizzah Fatima and Zawahry, Americanish follows sisters Sam (Aizzah Fatima) and Maryam Khan (Salena Qureshi), and their cousin Ameera (Shenaz Treasury), as they navigate love, careers and familial pressures in Jackson Heights, Queens.
Zawahry’s first feature won the Audience Award in its 2021 world premiere at San Francisco’s CAAMFest before going on to win a total of 25 awards at festivals around the world. Pic’s cast also includes Mo‘s Mo Amer, as well as Lillette Dubey (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), Kapil Talwalkar (Charmed), Ajay Naidu (The Good Nurse), Godfrey (South Side), George Wendt (Christmas with the Campbells), David Rasche (Succession), Natasha Chandel (Seal Team), Purva Bedi (One Of Us Is Lying...
Written by Aizzah Fatima and Zawahry, Americanish follows sisters Sam (Aizzah Fatima) and Maryam Khan (Salena Qureshi), and their cousin Ameera (Shenaz Treasury), as they navigate love, careers and familial pressures in Jackson Heights, Queens.
Zawahry’s first feature won the Audience Award in its 2021 world premiere at San Francisco’s CAAMFest before going on to win a total of 25 awards at festivals around the world. Pic’s cast also includes Mo‘s Mo Amer, as well as Lillette Dubey (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), Kapil Talwalkar (Charmed), Ajay Naidu (The Good Nurse), Godfrey (South Side), George Wendt (Christmas with the Campbells), David Rasche (Succession), Natasha Chandel (Seal Team), Purva Bedi (One Of Us Is Lying...
- 1/11/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Year-long fellowship awarded to 10 first-time filmmakers.
The Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) has announced the projects selected for the 13th Ifp Narrative Labs.
Ifp’s year-long fellowship provides an all-encompassing mentorship and resources for 10 first-time filmmakers currently in post-production on their debut narrative feature.
The selected fellows for the 13th Ifp Narrative Labs are:
American Thief Miguel Silveira writer-director, Melissa Hernandez co-writer, Michel Stolnicki writer-producer;
Cubby Mark Blane writer-director, Carolina Gimenez producer, William Colby editor;
Dead Pigs Cathy Yan writer-director;
The Garden Left Behind Flavio Alves director, Roy Wol producer, Alex Lora editor;
Geppetto Z Behl writer-director, Sam Kuhn director of photography, Justin Cox music supervisor;
Jinn Nijla Mu’min writer-director, Avril Z. Speaks producer, Collin Kriner editor;
Jules Of Light And Dark Daniel Laabs writer, director and editor, Jeff Walker producer, Judd Myers producer-editor;
Kids Go Free To Fun Fun Time Ben Hicks writer-director;
Nancy Christina Choe writer-director, Amy Lo producer, David Gutnik editor...
The Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) has announced the projects selected for the 13th Ifp Narrative Labs.
Ifp’s year-long fellowship provides an all-encompassing mentorship and resources for 10 first-time filmmakers currently in post-production on their debut narrative feature.
The selected fellows for the 13th Ifp Narrative Labs are:
American Thief Miguel Silveira writer-director, Melissa Hernandez co-writer, Michel Stolnicki writer-producer;
Cubby Mark Blane writer-director, Carolina Gimenez producer, William Colby editor;
Dead Pigs Cathy Yan writer-director;
The Garden Left Behind Flavio Alves director, Roy Wol producer, Alex Lora editor;
Geppetto Z Behl writer-director, Sam Kuhn director of photography, Justin Cox music supervisor;
Jinn Nijla Mu’min writer-director, Avril Z. Speaks producer, Collin Kriner editor;
Jules Of Light And Dark Daniel Laabs writer, director and editor, Jeff Walker producer, Judd Myers producer-editor;
Kids Go Free To Fun Fun Time Ben Hicks writer-director;
Nancy Christina Choe writer-director, Amy Lo producer, David Gutnik editor...
- 5/9/2017
- ScreenDaily
Tito Jackson's hands are clean when it comes to last year's failed Michael Jackson/Motown celebration concert ... this according to Tito's agent.Tito's agent, Peter Seitz, is responding to allegations made by the concert's promoter, Roy Isaac, who told us the show went belly up in part because Tito refused to do press for the show ... and then made off with a $7,500 deposit check.Peter tells TMZ Tito did in fact do press for...
- 2/7/2010
- TMZ
The late ‘Thriller’ star – who died from an acute Propofol intoxication last June – was honoured with a special musical tribute to mark being given a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award but organisers failed to invite his siblings, including those who performed in The Jackson 5 with him, to the star-studded music awards show in Los Angeles on Sunday (31.01.10). His brother and former bandmate Randy tweeted: "So proud, my brother being honoured tonight with the Lifetime Achievement Award. My family would love to be there but, truth is, we weren't invited. "Do you want more truth? Let me be clear. When I said 'my family' I meant my brothers, sisters and parents." Michael’s three children, Paris, 11, Prince Michael I, 12, and seven-year-old Prince Michael II – aka Blanket – were there to honour their father but Randy is convinced the children were only invited as an afterthought. A source told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "Randy was incandescent.
- 2/2/2010
- by Alice
- Gossipvita
Tito Jackson is accused of single handedly torpedoing a Michael Jackson tribute concert last year -- and now the guy behind the show is looking to settle the score. A concert promoter named Roy Isaac has fired off a letter to Tito -- demanding he return a $7,500 deposit Tito was allegedly paid for a concert in Michigan -- a concert that never happened. Isaac tells TMZ the whole thing fell apart, in part, because Tito...
- 2/1/2010
- TMZ
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