November 17, 2015
Winners of the Twin Cities Arab Film Fest Awards
The 10th Twin Cities Arab Film Festival was a weekend of beautiful, challenging, and powerful film. Thank you to our audiences, filmmakers, volunteers, sponsors, and partners.Mizna’s Arab Film Festival festival has long celebrated films and filmmakers whose work sets them apart. For the first time in 2015, we convened a brilliant jury of filmmakers, film scholars, and community members working in cultural fields to select the top films in the following three categories: Best Narrative...
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October 20, 2015
Homeland Hacker Heba Amin Joins Mizna
We’re happy to share the news that the incomparable Heba Amin, long-time Mizna friend who is one of the artists behind the subversive action on the television series “Homeland” set, has joined Mizna’s team as our Curator of Visual Art. Mizna has a long relationship with Heba who was a grantee in Mizna’s 2007 Latitudes granting program and who visited our 2011 Twin Cities Arab Film Festival from Berlin with her short film “Voices from the Revolution.”From Heba: “I am honored to be joining...
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July 15, 2015
H.O.M.E.S
Joyce Foundation Fellow through Mizna, Moheb Soliman documents his journey across the Great Lakes Borderland of Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior. Moheb began his exploration in June and ended it in early October of 2015. H.O.M.E.S is a project exploring the place of nature in modernity, identity and belonging. Check out Moheb’s gorgeous blog: A GREAT LAKES VISTAListen to an interview with Michigan’s public radio station WKER.
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