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Movies That Matter: Shame
June 10, 2007
Credits
Producer: Jeremy Taylor
Synopsis
Tribeca 2007 Interview with Mohammed Naqvi
Movie: SHAME [ SHOWCASE ]
June 10, 2007
In 2002, Mukhtaran Mai, a woman living in a remote Pakistani village, was publicly gang raped to atone for a crime her brother allegedly committed. Instead of killing herself, as she was expected to do, she raised an outcry that became an international cause. A powerful essay in courage. In Urdu and Sariki.
Documentation
Biography: A Pakistani native, MOHAMMED NAQVI made the award-winning documentary Terror's Children (2003), which launched the Discovery Times Channel. He is the youngest winner of the prestigious Overseas Press Club of America's Carl Spielvogel Award and also a winner of the South Asian Journalist Award. Mohammed is also an AFI: Project 20/20 fellow, an initiative cosponsored by the NEA, NEH, The U.S. State Department and The President's Committee on the Arts. He has also been an invited guest panelist at the Youth Initiative for Peace Summit (2003) and U.S.-World Islamic Forum (2007). He is a former IFP Directors Lab participant and founder of B.L.A.H. Productions, a theatre company in New York. He is the producer of the narrative feature Big River (2006) that was screened at the Berlin Film Festival. Shame is his first feature-length documentary.