Exclusive: Egyptian star Bushra has signed up to play opposite compatriot actor Sayed Badreya in English-language thriller Bride Of The Nile, about the trafficking of young girls in the region, which Badreya will also direct.
Bushra, who won best actress at Diff in 2010 for her performance in sexual harassment drama 678, will play a Us journalist investigating human trafficking who swaps places with a teenage victim destined for Saudi Arabia.
Badreya, who is attending Dubai Film Market with his Santa Monica-based company Zoom in Focus, plays a notorious smuggler who discovers the journalist’s ruse. The Egyptian-born, Us-based actor is best known for his baddie roles in over 30 Hollywood pictures including The Insider, Iron Man and The Dictator.
Executive produced by Belgium-based Sameh Sobhy, Bride Of The Nile will shoot in Chicago, Egypt and either Morocco or Nevada for the desert scenes. Badreya plans to shoot the $2m production in spring 2014.
He is also working on documentary The End...
Bushra, who won best actress at Diff in 2010 for her performance in sexual harassment drama 678, will play a Us journalist investigating human trafficking who swaps places with a teenage victim destined for Saudi Arabia.
Badreya, who is attending Dubai Film Market with his Santa Monica-based company Zoom in Focus, plays a notorious smuggler who discovers the journalist’s ruse. The Egyptian-born, Us-based actor is best known for his baddie roles in over 30 Hollywood pictures including The Insider, Iron Man and The Dictator.
Executive produced by Belgium-based Sameh Sobhy, Bride Of The Nile will shoot in Chicago, Egypt and either Morocco or Nevada for the desert scenes. Badreya plans to shoot the $2m production in spring 2014.
He is also working on documentary The End...
- 8.12.2013
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Egyptian star Bushra has signed up to play opposite compatriot actor Sayed Badreya in English-language thriller Bride Of The Nile, about the trafficking of young girls in the region, which Badreya will also direct.
Bushra, who won best actress at Diff in 2010 for her performance in sexual harassment drama 678, will play a Us journalist investigating human trafficking who swaps places with a teenage victim destined for Saudi Arabia.
Badreya, who is attending Dubai Film Market with his Santa Monica-based company Zoom in Focus, plays a notorious smuggler who discovers the journalist’s ruse. The Egyptian-born, Us-based actor is best known for his baddie roles in over 30 Hollywood pictures including The Insider, Iron Man and The Dictator.
Executive produced by Belgium-based Sameh Sobhy, Bride Of The Nile will shoot in Chicago, Egypt and either Morocco or Nevada for the desert scenes. Badreya plans to shoot the $2m production in spring 2014.
He is also working on documentary The End...
Bushra, who won best actress at Diff in 2010 for her performance in sexual harassment drama 678, will play a Us journalist investigating human trafficking who swaps places with a teenage victim destined for Saudi Arabia.
Badreya, who is attending Dubai Film Market with his Santa Monica-based company Zoom in Focus, plays a notorious smuggler who discovers the journalist’s ruse. The Egyptian-born, Us-based actor is best known for his baddie roles in over 30 Hollywood pictures including The Insider, Iron Man and The Dictator.
Executive produced by Belgium-based Sameh Sobhy, Bride Of The Nile will shoot in Chicago, Egypt and either Morocco or Nevada for the desert scenes. Badreya plans to shoot the $2m production in spring 2014.
He is also working on documentary The End...
- 8.12.2013
- ScreenDaily
- Canada's New kid on the block, is the brainchild of Robert Lantos. Maximum Films has the Romanian film Boogie in the Director's Fortnight and Egoyan's latest in the comp. Here are three I'm looking forward to: the Ioncinema.com profiled Sophie Barthes and Cold Souls, the Sundance docu favorite Trouble the Water and of course the Egoyan film. Adoration by Atom Egoyan - Completed American Trap (Piege Americain) - Completed Americaneast by Hesham Issawi - Completed Before The Rains by Santosh Sivan - Completed Boogie by Radu Muntean - Completed Chicago 10 by Brett Morgan - Completed Cold Souls by Sophie Barthes - Post-Production Fugitive Pieces by Jeremy Podeswa - Completed Otto; Or, Up With People by Bruce Labruce - Completed Real Time by Randall Cole - Completed The Guitar by Amy Redford - Completed The Waiting Room by Roger Goldby - Completed Trouble The Water by Carl Deal,
- 15.5.2008
- IONCINEMA.com
Shalhoub aims to change Arab image in U.S.
Despite several chances to take the bait and swallow whole, Tony Shalhoub painstakingly resisted.
The star of AmericanEast was on hand Monday in Dubai to tub-thump the indie movie, which focuses on Arab-American immigrants in post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, specifically their relations with their Jewish neighbors. The film screened Monday afternoon at the Madinat Jumeirah during the fourth annual Dubai International Film Festival.
Like most news conferences at film fests around the world, there are inevitably questions from the floor that tend to go for the jugular.
In this case, the discussion, in both Arabic and English, focused on whether the American public and the American media and entertainment biz were actually changing their attitudes toward Arabs.
"So many times, Arabs have been shown in a negative light," Shalhoub told the 50-odd reporters, but, he added, "things are beginning to change."
The past six years since Sept. 11, he went on, have prompted a lot of people to be "proactive and to push back."
He was, he said, inspired by efforts that his actor friend Stanley Tucci undertook years ago to foster Italian-American movies that weren't just about mafiosi as a model for what might be done for the image of Arab immigrants.
Asked specifically by an unidentified Arab speaker whether an Arab-American lobby was being created stateside to counter "the Zionist one in Washington and in Hollywood," Shalhoub was circumspect.
The star of AmericanEast was on hand Monday in Dubai to tub-thump the indie movie, which focuses on Arab-American immigrants in post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, specifically their relations with their Jewish neighbors. The film screened Monday afternoon at the Madinat Jumeirah during the fourth annual Dubai International Film Festival.
Like most news conferences at film fests around the world, there are inevitably questions from the floor that tend to go for the jugular.
In this case, the discussion, in both Arabic and English, focused on whether the American public and the American media and entertainment biz were actually changing their attitudes toward Arabs.
"So many times, Arabs have been shown in a negative light," Shalhoub told the 50-odd reporters, but, he added, "things are beginning to change."
The past six years since Sept. 11, he went on, have prompted a lot of people to be "proactive and to push back."
He was, he said, inspired by efforts that his actor friend Stanley Tucci undertook years ago to foster Italian-American movies that weren't just about mafiosi as a model for what might be done for the image of Arab immigrants.
Asked specifically by an unidentified Arab speaker whether an Arab-American lobby was being created stateside to counter "the Zionist one in Washington and in Hollywood," Shalhoub was circumspect.
- 11.12.2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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