WINNER OF THREE FIRST PRIZE AWARDS AT AMERICAN FILM FESITVALS
MISTAKEN IDENTITY: DISCOVER SIKH AMERICAN NEIGHBORS - A 9/11 STORY
Film Synopsis
She never had a Sikh friend in her private schools or college. But was outraged when she read (six days after 9/11) how all ages of Sikh American men, women and children were being racially profiled, verbally abused and physically attacked, shot and killed, simply because they wore turbans and beards.
At midnight, she phoned Director Vinanti Sarkar and insisted that we produce a film as she was horrified how Americans were so naive, mistaking their Sikh Americans neighbors for terrorists, simply because they wore turbans and beards and resembled Bin La Din.
Working with the film crew, Amanda visited schools, colleges, family homes and business houses to discover for herself "Who are Sikhs ? What is Sikhism ? and What Sikh Americans have contributed to the American economy since they arrived in the USA in the 1880s.
From November 2001 to April 2002, she worked hard and within six months of its official distribution release, the film entered three Ameican Film Festivals in Alabama, Texas, LA-Hollywood and won three (3) first prize awards !!!
What makes "MISTAKEN IDENTITY A 911 Story" so different from other films on 9/11 ? It was the need for promoting and celebrating ethnic cultural diversity with the idealistic kind of sensitivity of Young America.
But then one or two PBS producers requested the one hour made-for-TV colored film be broadcast for "free," Executive Producer/ Director Vinanti Sarkar knew that PBS paid their own Judeo-Christian producers $250,000 for a one hour program. If the film was broadcast "for free" on national Public TV, someone (inhouse producer) could sell the one hour program for $1,000 to 440 PBS networks, and pocket over $440,000, excluding the sale of DVDs and other ancillaries (T-shirts, turbans, etc).
Instead, the film was purchased as an institutional product to major university, public and private libraries and individuals interested in "cultural diveristy" ! It is available for DVD sale at email: globalfilmlinks@earthlink.net or Tel: 1-212-759-4568.
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