Arab in America -The Movie!

The Making Arab in America Blog is LIVE!!!

// November 19th, 2008 // Everything Else, Making Arab

Hello interwebs,

My name is Nabil Abou-Harb, and I’m the creator/co-writer/director/producer of the short comedy film, Arab in America. We shot Arab in America in late 2006 and early 2007 and since completion of the film, its played at many film festivals around the world including: The Cannes International Film Festival, The Memphis International Film Festival, and the Washington D.C. International Film Festival (where it also took home the Audience Award for Best Short).

We’ve been painstakingly trying to get the film picked up as a full-fledged feature film for almost two years.  Trying to get your movie made is not easy…  There’s an entire world of Agents, Producers, Executives, Investors, and Assistants that all successfully set up a firewall.  If you can break the firewall, you’re in.  Breaking that firewall, is an entirely different story.  Over the course of two years, we’ve chipped away at the wall…  However, if we continue at the current pace, it’ll take 20 years…  We kind of feel like Andy Dufrane in Shawshank…

So we decided to do this…  With some 5,000 unique hits a week to this site, why not start a blog?!?  Not just any blog…  The Ultimate Blog!  A blog designed to show the world how hard it is to get your movie made.  A blog that chronicles the entire history of an awesome, thought-provoking film (I’m a little biased).  A blog that lets our fans and passerby to have a say in the process.

We hope you join us on our journey to change the hearts of the world through our film…

Throughout the next few weeks, we’re all going to be chronicling all the past stories and encounters that brought our project to this juncture.  All these posts will be tagged with the “history of arab” tag.  For more basic information on the film, don’t forget to click the “About The Film” link at the top of the page for a current synopsis and movie trailer.  Also, please feel free to comment on anything.  This blog won’t work all that well without you participating.  To leave a comment on a post, click the icon right underneath the date of the post.  That will open up the comments area.  From there you can comment to your heart’s desire.

If you’re looking for the old Arab website, it can be accessed at any time by going to http://www.fiveonfifty.com/arabinamerica whenever you’d like.  I’d beware, however…  The site looks like it was made in 1994 and hasn’t been updated in over a year (sorry about that).

Thanks everybody, and now…  let the blogging begin!

-Nabil