ACCEPTED! 14th Annual Garden State Film Festival
We are very excited to announce that we have been accepted by the Garden State Film Festival in Atlantic City, NJ. This is the 14th annual film festival which will be taking place March 31st …
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NYC Premiere At SVA Theater – HUGE SUCCESS
The long awaited NYC premiere of the film was a sold out show. Director and creator Abe Kasbo was beaming as the audience filled the lobby of the SVA theater. On this mild Sunday in …
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Researcher Found and Lost again…
Juliane Armstrong has brought so many resources to this film with her unbelievable research abilities. Armstrong came onto the production team to help gain essential historical photos needed to help drive the story and complement …
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Status Update Summer 2015
A Thousand and One Journeys: Arab Americans Making Headlines As the film approaches its full length documentary status, Abe Kasbo, the films creator and director, has been working on getting the word out there. Kasbo …
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Exclusive Film Screening & Fundraiser
A private screening of the film and fundraiser was held in Washington D.C. in a celebration of this project, which is in the final stages of production. With Ammar Askari hosting the event in his …
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Rescheduled Interviews
As we are nearing completion of this project, continued efforts and generous accommodations are bringing us ever closer to our goal. Due to technical errors, interviews with Senator George Mitchell and Congressman Nick Rahall were …
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Bobby Rahal Interview In Indy!
We were honored when racing legend Bobby Rahal accepted an interview for the film! We met him in shop just outside Indianapolis. Bobby’s All-American story is inspiring, growing up in an tightly-knit immigrant family in …
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Thank You, Kickstarter Backers!
Before we launched this site, we joined Kickstarter to help with our fundraising our project. We needed help raising money to continue filming and for future editing when the film is complete. The love and support …
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Behind the Scenes: Filming with Andy Shallal
The next stop on our journey of documenting the Arab-American experience took us to Washington D.C. We found ourselves on Capitol Hill in the middle of an Occupy protest. After speaking to some protesters and …
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Status Update!
We were fortunate enough to meet with Cherien Dabis, writer and director of the award-winning film Amreeka. She provided invaluable insight on our work so far and offered guidance on how to approach writing the …
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