Arab in America -The Movie!

Just when you think something is dead…

// November 19th, 2008 // 2 Comments » // Making Arab

This is Colin.

This is Colin Ferri writing, co-writer/producer of the Arab in America short, and co-writer of the Arab in America feature.

Out of the small creative team behind Arab in America I am currently the only one living in LA. I moved here a little over a year ago, and I’m living with an old high school friend. When I arrived, I was excited about being the front man of the crew, pitching the script to the Hollywood bigwigs, then relaying the info back to Nabil and Tom in Georgia.  Oh, how that all changed when I arrived.

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The History of Arab (pt.1 of many)

// November 19th, 2008 // No Comments » // Making Arab

Karrabba's: Good Food, Bad Tips

Most of my first few posts will try to get everyone up to speed on the constant roller coaster that has been Arab in America.  We’re kind of starting this blog late in the game (over 2 years since we started the project) so there’s a lot of ground to catch up…

I can remember it like it was yesterday…  Here, lets set the scene a bit.  Close your eyes and think of Savannah, Georgia, USA.  If you’ve never been to Savannah, think of heaven, take away a little bit of beauty, add in some old, and and top it off with a horrible paper mill smell.  Anyway, it was the spring of 2006.  I had just broken up with my girlfriend and started working at an Italian Chain restaurant (lets call it Karrabba’s).  I was kind of going through a little dilemma at the time…  No, it wasn’t because I had just lost my girlfriend (I was pretty relieved about it, actually) nor was it because I was getting tired of having extra virgin olive oil spilled all over my clothes (the smell stays even after multiple showers)…

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The Making Arab in America Blog is LIVE!!!

// November 19th, 2008 // No Comments » // Everything Else, Making Arab

This is Nabil.

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…

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