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 the winner...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 writer...Read Full Story

Directed by Cherien DabisNational Geographic EntertainmentThere 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...Read Full Story

“Welcome to Amreeka! You speekz inglizeh? No broblem!” .. I can go on and on with Arab English accents! My particular favorite is how most Arabs cannot pronounce Massachusetts. Try it. Amreeka, the movie, finally made its way to Lebanon (as part of the Beirut International Film Festival). I’d been anticipating it for a while after hearing all the positive reviews from my friends in Boston. The director, Cherien Dabis, was also in attendance to answer questions at the end. She did a...Read Full Story

September 24th, 2009 | Author: admin The thriving subgenre of immigrant displacement dramedy gets a confident new spin from Cherien Dabis, a Palestinian-Jordanian raised in the United States. Divorced, demoralized and struggling with her weight, Palestinian bank employee Muna (a very good Nisreen Faour) leaves the oc... Posted in News | Tags: Dallas, NewsRead Full Story

RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Drama. Written and directed by Cherien Dabis. With Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem and Hiam Abbass. In English and Arabic with English subtitles. (PG-13. 96 minutes. At the Embarcadero and Shattuck theaters.) Muna (Nisreen Faour), an… More: continued hereRead Full Story

Director Cherien Dabis' debut feature is a surprising, humorous, moving and very human story about a Palestinian family's emigration to Illinois on the eve of the Iraq war.Read Full Story

rrhobbs: #indieWIRE #news: Authenticity, Intimacy and Realism: Cherien Dabis Talks “Amreeka”: EDITORS NO.. http://kl.am/2NnBRead Full Story