American Jihadist to Screen at Jepson Center
American Jihadist, winner of the Slamdance Film Festival's Best Documentary and the International Muslim Film Festival's Best Documentary, will be screening on Friday, October 22 at 8:00 pm at the Jepson Center located at 207 West York Street.
- Savannah, GA (1888PressRelease) October 09, 2010 - American Jihadist, winner of the 16th Annual Slamdance Film Festival's Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary and the 6th International Muslim Film Festival's Jury Award for Best Feature Documentary, will be screening on Friday, October 22 at 8:00 pm at the Jepson Center located at 207 West York Street. Tickets cost $6 and will be available starting at 7:15 pm at the auditorium entrance located on Oglethorpe Avenue. The screening is presented by REEL Savannah, an organization dedicated to showing thought-provoking films to local audiences.
American Jihadist, which had its world premiere at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City Utah, is filmmaker Mark Claywell's directorial debut. The documentary has continued to earn critical acclaim both at home and abroad showing in twelve other US film festivals, as well as at elite international festivals in Canada, Ireland, Poland and Russia. Claywell will be present and will hold a question and answer session after the screening.
A look at militant Islam through the eyes of an American who fought for it, American Jihadist is the story of Isa Abdullah Ali, a.k.a. Cleven Raphael Holt, who grew up in the ghettos of America's capitol and was surrounded by physical and psychological violence from birth. The feature-length documentary considers the role that such violence and lack of hope for the future play in the development of radicalism and poses the question: "What makes a person willing to kill and die for their religion?"
As the founder of Hype Media, Inc., and with over 20 years of experience as an award-winning commercial director, Mark Claywell has created and directed various national and international advertising campaigns for Fortune 500 companies. Claywell directed, shot, produced and edited the majority of the footage for American Jihadist including interviews in Bosnia, Lebanon, Iran, England, Washington, DC, Boston, and New York City. This is his first feature film.
Jody Jenkins (Writer/Producer) is an editor at France 24, a 24-hour news network in Paris. He has covered the Czechoslovakian and Romanian revolutions, the Kurdish refugee crisis in the wake of the first Gulf War, and the Serbo-Croatian and Bosnian wars. For the past ten years he has been researching American Muslims who fight as jihadists. He is currently researching the life of Larimer Mellon for Claywell's next documentary.
Francois Bringer (Cameraman) regularly produces and films documentaries and reports for Channel 4 (UK), CNN, CBS, 60 Minutes, the History Channel and Al Jazeera English.
American Jihadist is scheduled to appear at numerous film festivals in the coming months. Please refer to the film's website for future screening dates.
American Jihadist is represented by Circus Road Films located in Santa Monica, CA. All rights to the story are available. For more information, please contact Glen Reynolds at 310/386-5196 , or visit the film's website.
To schedule an interview with Mark Claywell, please contact Hype Media, Inc. at 912/234-6962.
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