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Dan and Sam need help to fund a short film

Just got this email from Dan Sussman and Sam Roberts who are trying to make a short film in the UK.

"We're looking to make a ten minute film called "Veils", about a Jewish girl and a Palestinian boy in London, arguing with their parents on their wedding day. The script came second in the Jewish Film Fund competiton, losing out to a documentary." 

Here's the pitch from them:

Title: Veils
Length: Ten minutes
Format: Super 16mm
Budget: £16,500
Filming: Five day shoot planned for July 2005
Screening: At festivals and on terrestrial television (e.g. Jewish Film Festival touring cinemas throughout Great Britain, Channel 4 showcase, BBC slot for Jewish New Year)

Synopsis:

It is the wedding day of Samer, a Palestinian Muslim from Westbourne Grove, and Miriam, a young Jewish woman living in Finchley.  As the morning progresses, Samer’s father Abdul and Miriam’s mother Judith each struggle to support their child’s choice of partner while staying faithful to their own ideas of family.

But this is no ordinary story of love against the odds.  In a revelatory climax,  we realise that Miriam is an orthodox Jew marrying a liberal Jew, and Samer is a Palestinian Mulsim marrying a Palestinian Christian.  We are provoked into reconsidering the complex and fluid nature of ethnic identity and prejudice.

“Veils” is a comedy drama about Jews and Muslims and Christians in today’s multicultural Britain: by turns exciting, thought-provoking, funny and uplifting.  Above all, this is a story about the parents, assailed by the preparations and panic of the wedding day, as they navigate their parallel journeys, coping with old-fashioned grandparents, independent-minded children and kosher crispy duck pancakes.

If you can help them, here's the contact details:

email: d_susman@yahoo.co.uk

telephone: 07812 110 073

Help needed section now on Jewishfilm.co.uk

From time to time we get emails from folks who are making films who need some help. It could be they need a cameraman (or woman), some actors or money.

If you need some help, tell us what it is you need and email:  helpneeded@jewishfilm.co.uk

Provided you are not running some get rich quick scheme or are of a dubious nature, then we will put up your details so others can get in touch with you if they are interested in helping out.