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A Jihad For Love
''A Jihad for Love'' (preceded by a short film called ''In the Name of Allah'') is a 2008 documentary film and was the world's first film on Islam and homosexuality. It took a total of six years to make and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2007. It premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival in 2008 as the opening documentary film for the Panorama section. The Indo-American Arts Council referred to it as a "seminal film" because of its unprecedented subject. The work that Sharma started with the film has become a staple in many books on Islam and at U.S. University libraries. Sharma wrote the foreword for the two-part anthology ''Islam and Homosexuality''. According to Sharma, South Africa's Muslim Judicial Council labeled him an Apostasy in Islam, apostate in response to the film. Production ''A Jihad for Love'' is produced by Halal Films, in association with the Sundance Institute, Sundance Documentary Film Fund, Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Run Features
First Run Features is an independent film distribution company based in New York City. History First Run was founded in 1979 by a group of filmmakers in order to advance the distribution of independent film. In the 1980s, the company focused on more mainstream documentaries and started distributing films on video. It is one of America's largest independent distributors of documentaries and art films, releasing 12 to 15 films a year in theaters nationwide and 40 to 60 titles on DVD and VOD annually. First Run distributes a large number of documentaries and foreign films, including many films about LGBT issues, Jewish experience, and political and human rights issues. First Run is the American distributor for Michael Apted's ''Up'' series, Ross McElwee's '' Sherman's March'', the Oscar-nominated ''The Most Dangerous Man in America'', '' Maidentrip'', ''Girl Model'', '' Eames: The Architect and the Painter'', ''For the Bible Tells Me So'', '' A Jihad for Love'', ''God Loves Ug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |