Muslim Filmmakers Roundtable | Beyond Resilience
Firelight Media hosted a Beyond Resilience roundtable discussion with Muslim filmmakers on ethics and accountability in the documentary ecosystem. Following the premiere of the documentary Jihad Rehab at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, these filmmakers and their allies have called for a broad re-examination of what constitutes ethics and accountability for funders, programmers, distributors, and filmmakers.
**Accessibility notice: This event includes ASL interpretation.**
The Beyond Resilience series is sponsored by Open Society Foundations. Beyond Resilience is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Beyond Resilience is also supported by Field of Vision.
Moderator:
Marcia Smith, Co-Founder and President, Firelight Media
Panelists:
- Karim Ahmad, Writer and Culture Strategist, Former Director of the Outreach & Inclusion Program at the Sundance Institute
- Assia Boundaoui, filmmaker, The Feeling of Being Watched, and Documentary Lab alum
- Sami Khan, filmmaker, St. Louis Superman
- Marjan Safinia, filmmaker, And She Could Be Next
PROGRAM NOTES/BACKGROUND READING
- Muslim Artists & Allies, "An Open Letter to the Sundance Institute,'" Medium
- Assia Boundaoui, “Islamophobia and the Tyranny of Empathy: The Case of 'Jihad Rehab,'” Documentary Magazine
- Jude Chehab, “Sundance's 'powerful' doc ‘Jihad Rehab’ is US propaganda 20 years too late,” TRT World
- Farihah Zaman, “A Question of Perspective,” Reverse Shot
- Karim Ahmad, "RESTORING THE FUTURE: Building a more abundant media arts system through restorative values practice," with contributions by members of the ALLIED coalition of artist support organizations
- Jessica Devaney, "Curation is Not Censorship," Documentary Magazine
- "A Note from Joana Vicente and Tabitha Jackson,” Sundance Institute
- "Letter from Abigail Disney on film Jihad Rehab," Fork Films
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