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The Sheik and I

"Lights! Camera! Fatwa!"

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NR 2012 · 1h 43m
Comedy, Documentary
Starring Caveh Zahedi · Beckett Zahedi · Amanda Field
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When an American filmmaker is commissioned to make a film for a Middle East Biennial on the theme of 'art as a subversive act,' his film is banned for blasphemy, he is asked to destroy every copy, and threatened with arrest.

Theatrical
Dec 7, 2012
Digital
Dec 7, 2012
Director
Caveh Zahedi
Producer
Caveh Zahedi
Studio
Reinventing the Wheel
Keywords
blasphemy censorship religious intolerance
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C
Caveh Zahedi
Self
B
Beckett Zahedi
Self
A
Amanda Field
Self
C
Colin Nusbaum
Self
M
Michael Patten
Self

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