TINY LEAPS PRODUCTIONS - FILMOGRAPHY/VIDEOGRAPHY (with selected screenings, reviews, and awards)

  VEILED VOICES (2009) Producer and Director.  HD.  The hour long documentary investigates the role of Muslim women leaders in contemporary Islam in the Arab world.  Distributed by Typecast Releasing.           

• November 2009            Presentation at United States Institute of Peace, Washington, DC
• November 2009            Middle East Association Film Fest, Boston MA
• November 2009            New Orleans Middle East Film Festival, New Orleans, LA
• September 2009            National broadcast premiere on LinkTV
• September 2009            Premiere, International Festival of Muslim Cinema, Kazan Russia
• July 2009                       Sneak Preview, Islamic Society of North America’s Film Festival and Annual                                            Conference, Washington, DC

SHEIKHA STORIES (2009).  Producer and Director.  HD.  36 minutes.  The compilation DVD contains 5 short films about Muslim women leaders and institutions that support women in the Arab world.  Titles include:  The Modern Sheikha, Magda’s Calling, Socratic Sheikha, Ladies of Brilliance and Mosque of Light.        

• November 2009      
• Sept. 2009            Shorts premiere on LinkTV website.
• August 2009        Distributed on DVD by Arab Film Distribution
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AWOL (2005) Producer, Writer, and Director.  DVCAM.  The eighteen-minute fictional short about an encounter between an army deserter and a desert family in Iraq, evokes a wealth of cross-cultural ambiguities and tensions generated by the war. Distributed by Third World Newsreel (www.twn.org).

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• March 2010          SPE (Society for Photographic Education) Women's Film Festival.  Juried.
• March 2009          San Francisco Women’s Film Festival, “indie-fest” online competition.  Presented                                   in partnership with IndieFlix.
• Sept. 2007            National Museum of Women in the Arts’ Festival of Film & Media Arts,                                Washington DC
• Sept. 2007            Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY
• May 2007            Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival, Ankara, Turkey
• May 2007            Langston Hughes African American Film Festival, Seattle, WA
• April 2007           French Cultural Center Festival, Cairo, Egypt
• March 2007         Reel Women International Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
• March 2007         Women in Film and Video Film Festival, Vancouver, BC
• March 2007         DC Independent Film Festival, Washington, DC
• March 2007         The Women of Color Arts and Film Festival, Atlanta, GA
• March 2007         Heritage Film and Video Festival, Greenbelt, MD
• February 2007     Through Women’s Eyes (festival sponsored by UNIFEM), Sarasota, FL
• February 2007     Al Sakia Film Festival, Cairo, Egypt
• February 2007     Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo, Egypt (Invited Artist)
• Sept. 2006            Urban Literary Film Festival, Greensboro, NC
• August 2006        Respondent Screening at the UFVA Annual Conference
• April 2006            Brooklyn Arts Council 40th International Film and Video Festival, Brooklyn, NY
• April 2006            Bare Bones Independent Film Festival, Muskogee, OK. 
• Nominated for Best Foreign Film.
• March 2006            Arizona Black Film Showcase, Phoenix, AZ
• March 2006            Durango Independent Film Festival, Durango, CO
•             March 2006            Cine Noir Film Festival, Wilmington NC. 
• Received 2nd place award for Best Short.
• December 2005            Preview at American University, Washington DC           
• October 2005            Preview at Notre Dame University, Lebanon
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AQUANAUT (2004) Producer, Director.  DVCAM/16mm, music video.  The ten-minute music video was produced for the Chicago band Buried at Sea. 

• August 2005             Distributed as part of the Doomed Nation Music Video DVD, over 500 copies                                          have been produced and are currently in distribution
• October 2004            7/11 Film Festival, Heaven Gallery, Chicago IL
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THE KING, THE LAWYERS, AND THE CHEESE (2003) Producer, Director.   DVCAM, documentary.  The forty-five-minute documentary follows an underground artist’s legal fight against Kraft Foods to keep his nom de plume. 

• December 2004   Portland Underground Film Festival
• May 2004            DC Underground Film Festival
• April 2004           Independent Film Showcase, Local Cable Station in Minneapolis, MN
• March 2004         RAWK Show, Austin, TX
• November 2003  Detroit Docs Festival, Detroit, IL
• October 2003       Appetite for Distraction Festival, Chicago IL
• September 2003  Banned Book Week, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
• August 2003        Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL
• August 2003       Review by Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Chicago Reader

ADRIFT IN THE HEARTLAND (2002) Producer, Writer, Director.  16mm, narrative.  A feature film about a young Palestinian woman and African American woman who overcome their stereotypes to form a friendship through jazz and classic movies.

• May 2008             Langston Hughes African American Film Festival, Seattle, WA
• March 2008          Arizona Black Film Showcase, Phoenix, AZ           
• March 2008          Cine Noir Film Festival, Wilmington NC
•                                 2nd Place Award for Best Feature
• July 2005              Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago
• May 2004             Girlsfest, Honolulu Hawaii
• March 2003          Women of Color Film Festival, Berkeley, CA
• Sept. 2002             Crossing Boundaries Festival, Des Moines, IA
• August 2002         Honorable Mention, UFVA Juried Screening, 2002 Conference
• March 2002          Wednesday Night Screening Series, Columbia College
• January 2002        Featured Chicago Artist, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago
• January 2002        Review:  Fred Camper, The Chicago Reader
• March 2001          City of Chicago, Harold Washington Library, Celebration of Arab Cinema
• Nov. 2000             City of Chicago, Chicago Cultural Center, Arab Heritage Month
• Nov. 2000             Review:  Cara Jepsen, The Chicago Reader

SAVE THE AFGHAN CHILDREN! (2001) Director, Writer, Editor.  DVCAM, experimental.  The twelve-minute video presents a satirical view of the current U.S. foreign policy in Afghanistan.  The video is based on a telethon organized by a group of women influenced by President Bush’s speech to help the Afghan children during the “New War.” 

•  May 2005           Cross Cultural Symposium, Notre Dame University, Lebanon
• June 2002            Screen-2-Stream Film and Video Screening, The Methadome Theater, Chicago
• May 2002            Montage, Innjoy, Chicago
• Dec. 2001            Verde Arts Festival (as video installation), Chicago

CHICAGO ADRIFT (1998) Producer, director, writer.  16mm, narrative.  A ten-minute film short about an impromptu confrontation between an African American woman and a Palestinian woman in Chicago.  

• Fall 1998            Student Finalist for the Dory Schary Award for Film Excellence 

WAITING (1997) Director, cinematographer, and editor.  16mm, experimental narrative.  The three-minute visual poem portrays a desperate young woman frozen with inaction.  

• May 1997             Festival Highlight at the National Video Poetry Festival
• June 1997            Image Union 

MUSLIM WOMEN LIVING IN OMAN (1995) Producer, director, and editor.  Video, documentary.  The twenty-two minute video examines Western misconceptions and the status of Muslim women in Oman.

•             June 1995            Distributed to universities through out the United States.