Falls the Shadow
Feature Film - drama - in development
As director and scriptwriter
www.fallstheshadow.com
A mother's last wish to be buried in her Jordanian homeland serves as the catalyst for her Arab-American daughter to discover a country she always rejected, a legacy she always disdained and a mystical past she never knew.

Jackie and the 40 Yellow Cabs
Feature Film - comedy - in development
As actor
www.iseefilm.com
In a country from which so many of its people long to escape, an American must find a way to stay.

Believe
Documentary - experimental - in production/post-production
As director
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A statement, an imperative, a question … and an evolving multi-cultural discovery.

In 2005 I went to visit my family in America, as I often do. And as I often do while I am there, I waited to leave. It is a country that, despite all the ways in which it impacted me in positive ways as I was growing up, I can no longer tolerate for many reasons. Each and every time I return to America from living and travelling abroad, I am astounded by the increasing superficiality of the country, its intolerable materialism, and its flawed insistence that everything is OK.

So in 2005 I woke up in my suburban bedroom with a question in my mind that wouldn’t let go. I began to wonder if I was alone in questioning myself or were other people becoming so heavily influenced by political, social, cultural, and religious politics that they were questioning themselves.

So instead of moping around and hiding out as I normally do, I picked up my camera and started asking anyone and everyone the question that plagued me:

What do you believe?

I have posed this question to people of all ages, from all walks of life, in various cities in America, Europe, the Middle East and India. The answers I’ve recorded - whether short, long, angry, happy, contrived, heartfelt, sad, silly, poignant - are always provocative. And because what we choose to wear on our t-shirts, stick on our cars, hang outside our homes and graffiti on our walls can all be expressions of what we believe, I captured these implied answers as well.

Believe is a statement, an imperative, a question … and an evolving multi-cultural discovery.