Cherien Dabis

January 28, 2011 Download PDF Salt Lake, UT ( RPRN ) 01/28/11 — WHAT:              Sundance Institute and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) have announced Cherien Dabis, director of May in the Summer, as winner of the 2011 Sundance / NHK International Filmmaker Award.   Originally created to celebrate 100 years of Cinema, the annual award recognizes and supports a visionary filmmaker on his or her next film. Sundance Institute staff works closely with...Read Full Story

Sundance Institute and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) have announced Cherien Dabis , director of May in the Summer, as winner of the 2011 Sundance / NHK International Filmmaker Award. Originally created to celebrate 100 years of Cinema, the annual award recognizes and supports a visionary filmmaker on his or her next film. Sundance Institute staff works closely with the winner throughout the year, providing creative and strategic support through the development, financing and production...Read Full Story

Amreeka AMREEKA (DVD MOVIE) Amreeka chronicles the adventures of Muna, a single mother who leaves the West Bank with Fadi, her teenage son, with dreams of an exciting future in the promised land of small town Illinois. In America, as her son navigates high school hallways the way he used to move through military checkpoints, the indomitable Muna scrambles together a new life cooking up falafel burgers as well as hamburgers at the local White Castle. Told with heartfelt humor by...Read Full Story

Directed by Cherien Dabis National Geographic Entertainment There are a plethora of films which recount the arrival of distinct ethnic groups to America, ranging from the Eddie Murphy’s pathetic Coming to America to the Charlie Chaplin’s classic The Immigrant to the Patricia Riggen’s subtle Under The Same Moon or Jim Sheridan’s In America . However, no situation seems as tense as the arrival of visible minority immigrants to the United States post-9/11, where tense circumstances await them...Read Full Story

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Jordan Elgrably ( 310) 657 5511 jordane@levantinecenter.org James Lewis (323) 828 2424 jlewispr@gmail.com LOS ANGELES (June 24, 2009)—National Geographic Entertainment (NGE) will release Cherien Dabis’ comedy “Amreeka” in New York and Los Angeles on Friday, Sept. 4, 2009, with a national rollout to follow. “Amreeka” premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, at New Directors/New Films (a co-presentation of The Museum of Modern Art and The Film Society of...Read Full Story