Exclusive: Media Farm Pictures has made a financing and producing deal with filmmaker and Student Academy Award winner Karzan Kader. Doug Liman’s Air Extreme Films will executive produce one of Kader’s upcoming projects.
The deal come in the wake of a week-long exploratory visit to multiple locations within the Kurdistan region of Iraq, for the upcoming film A True Desert Rose. Producers Gabrielle Allen, of Media Farm and Russ Stratton and Johanna Baldwin for Air Extreme, along with Kader took meetings with Deputy Prime Minister, Qubad Talabani from the Kurdistan Regional Government to formalize plans for the upcoming production.
A True Desert Rose is a story of a young boy whose life is interrupted when an injured American journalist arrives in his small village pursued by enemy forces.
As a refugee survivor, fleeing Kurdistan at the age of nine during the Iraq War in 1992, Karzan and his family...
The deal come in the wake of a week-long exploratory visit to multiple locations within the Kurdistan region of Iraq, for the upcoming film A True Desert Rose. Producers Gabrielle Allen, of Media Farm and Russ Stratton and Johanna Baldwin for Air Extreme, along with Kader took meetings with Deputy Prime Minister, Qubad Talabani from the Kurdistan Regional Government to formalize plans for the upcoming production.
A True Desert Rose is a story of a young boy whose life is interrupted when an injured American journalist arrives in his small village pursued by enemy forces.
As a refugee survivor, fleeing Kurdistan at the age of nine during the Iraq War in 1992, Karzan and his family...
- 3/5/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Filmmaker Doug Liman and actor/director Tyler Perry are teaming to create the racially charged murder tale "The Year of the Great Storm" which is set during the height of Apartheid in South Africa.
The true story tale follows Amy Biehl, an American Fulbright scholar who was living in South Africa during the darkest days of the struggle against Apartheid.
Following her being stabbed to death by a mob of black youths in 1993, her American parents decided to attend the trial of her daughter's killers and remained to begin a grassroots effort to bring about change in the movement.
Karzan Kader ("Bekas") is helming from a script by Johanna Baldwin while Tyler Perry, Ozzie Areu and Matt Moore will produce.
Source: Deadline...
The true story tale follows Amy Biehl, an American Fulbright scholar who was living in South Africa during the darkest days of the struggle against Apartheid.
Following her being stabbed to death by a mob of black youths in 1993, her American parents decided to attend the trial of her daughter's killers and remained to begin a grassroots effort to bring about change in the movement.
Karzan Kader ("Bekas") is helming from a script by Johanna Baldwin while Tyler Perry, Ozzie Areu and Matt Moore will produce.
Source: Deadline...
- 3/10/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: Tyler Perry’s 34th Street Films has teamed with a group of producers including Doug Liman to mount The Year of the Great Storm, a racially charged murder tale that occurred during the height of Apartheid in South Africa. Tyler Perry, Ozzie Areu and Matt Moore will produce with Air Extreme Films’ Russ Stratton and Johanna Baldwin. Liman and George C. Wolfe will be exec producers. Directing will be Karzan Kader, whose short film Bekas won a Student Academy Award…...
- 3/9/2016
- Deadline
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