More Lebanese movies gain recognition in America

March 2nd, 20180 By Farah Harb The Arab American News NEW YORK — The Lebanese movie "Yesterday Went with Yesterday", written and directed by Los Angeles based Lebanese American filmmaker Issam B. Makdissy, will make its U.S. premiere when it opens at Cinema Village on March 16. The story revolves around a Lebanese Canadian citizen's past and...

Shady Srour sells ‘Holy Air’ in Nazareth, a must see film

November 23rd, 20170 NAZARETH—“You see them, you love them; they are human like you,” Shady Srour, writer and director of the film “Holy Air”, said about the movie’s two main characters, Adam and Lamia. “They are modern, they want to live.” Srour is a self-described minority inside a minority. He grew up an Arab living in Nazareth. He...

Native and Arab American filmmaker talks film and politics

October 20th, 20170 BROOKLYN, NY — "We say we're Ojibtian." Adam Khalil and his younger brother Zack use that term when referring to their maternal indigenous Ojibway roots, and their paternal Egyptian heritage. Khalil's mother is Native American, and his father is Egyptian. Khalil, 29, grew up in Sault Ste. Marie in Michigan's Upper Peninsula...