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National Geographic Entertainment proudly presents
AMREEKA
Screening of AMREEKA from award-winning filmmaker Cherien Dabis. AMREEKA made its world premiere in dramatic competition at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, and played as Opening Night of New Directors/New Films, a co-presentation of The Museum of Modern Art and The Film Society of Lincoln Center. AMREEKA, which screened in Directors’ Fortnight at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, was awarded the prestigious critics’ prize by the Fipresci International Federation of Film Critics.
Told with heartfelt humor by writer-director Cherien Dabis in her feature film debut, AMREEKA is a universal journey into the lives of a family of immigrants and first generation teenagers caught between their heritage and the new world in which they now live, and the bittersweet search for a place to call home.
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.
AMREEKA recalls Dabis’ family’s memories of their lives in rural America during the first Iraq War. The film stars Haifa-trained actress Nisreen Faour as Muna, and Melkar Muallen plays her 16-year-old son, Fadi. Also in the cast are Hiam Abbass, Alia Shawkat, Yussef Abu-Warda and Joseph Ziegler. Written and directed by Cherien Dabis, AMREEKA was produced by Christina Piovesan and Paul Barkin. Alicia Sams, Dabis and Gregory Keever were executive producers; Liz Jarvis and Al-Zain Al-Sabah were co-producers.
National Geographic Entertainment will release AMREEKA on September 4th in New York and Los Angeles with a national rollout to follow. AMREEKA is rated PG-13 and has a running time of 97 minutes.
Screening:
Saturday, June 27th at 7:00 PM
Regent Theater, Westwood, 1045 Broxton Ave (btw Weyburn & Kinross)
Kindly RSVP to James Lewis at jlewispr@gmail.com
or by calling 323-828-2424
Press Materials:
Photos and Press Kit available at www.imageevent.com/amreeka
A First Generation Films-Alcina Pictures-Buffalo Gal Pictures/Eagle Vision Media Group Production, presented by E1 Entertainment in association with Levantine Entertainment, Rotana Studios and Showtime Arabia.
www.amreeka.com
