Ten years ago, Reza Aslan and his business partner Mahyad Tousi established BoomGen Studios, which consults with Hollywood on content about the Middle East. BoomGen is now a production company with two hit television...
Meanwhile the indie filmmaker Jeff Nichols has been quietly cranking out actual movies about faith, and for snooty, mostly secular art house audiences, no less. Thing is, they’re not about faith in terms of...
For some filmgoers, hearing a movie described as “faith-based” makes it a must-see. But just as many others find the term a turn-off. To reach audiences beyond the Christian churchgoers that generally propel the...
Director Laura Dunn divides The Seer: A Portrait of Wendell Berry into chapters–themes really–around Berry’s life and work. And because it’s not just a chronology of his life, it’s even more engaging. The film...
Touted to be a romantic entertainer, Jessie is a triangular love story that explores the effect of religion on love. Director’s Special, Raate & Boxer fame Dhananjay is playing the hero in the movie....
When viewers watch “The Young Messiah,” they have to view it objectively by separating from historicity or religion. Several scholars of the Bible have very little knowledge about Jesus’ early life or how he...
It’s one thing to have the concept for another cinematic take on Lew Wallace’s novel Ben-Hur. It’s quite another to see Jack Huston filling a role once made famous (and famously Oscar-winning) by Charlton...
The SAKHI-BEKHIS are mainly known as Krishna devotees – the men who dress up like Radha are ‘lovers’ or ‘female friends’ of Lord Krishna. This film shows us that even today many children are...
Adan (Barkhad Abdirahman), a Somali refugee living in Minneapolis, has nowhere to go. His mother has kicked him out, and his friends are sick of his stubborn ways. With nowhere left to turn, Adan...
The 2nd annual Milwaukee Muslim Film Festival will show its first movie keeping with a goal of trying to dispel ‘islamophobia’. The festival will be showing five films during the next few weeks. For...