Waheed Al Qawasmi will premiere at the 53rd Nashville Film Pageant (Nashville), which operates from September 29 to October 5 in Nashville, Tennessee. The film is a bold drama in both Arabic and English. It will be the premiere of the Jasser film.
The movie stars Lauren Bracco, Oscar nominee, The Sopranos – Goodfellas. For the 1st time the rising Lebanese actor (Malik Rahbani) and actor (Darius Tatoisi Tuttwiler) from Memphis.
Qawasmi said: “With this film, I wanted to seize a component of the recent heritage we live in, significantly with the present political weather of the United States and the environment. The film is a tribute and a poem to each and every refugee who has missing his or her individual. homeland 1 working day.
I can not explain my experience and my enthusiasm for taking part in the competition! JACIR star Malek Rahbani suggests primarily with our film! It is a truly amazing feeling to be attending global festivals right after these difficult a long time which lasted about 3 many years due to the Corona epidemic, and I hope tomorrow will be far better, God inclined!
Immediately after surviving the Syrian war and becoming a refugee, Jasser (Malik Al Rahbani) is resettled in a rough, rustic community in Memphis, Tennessee to start off his lookup for a new daily life. Lonely, with no knowledge of American culture, bad English and far from the new excellent daily life he imagined, he finds himself in a new, eccentric, racist and problematic environment.
He befriends a cat named Morty, owned by his neighbor Meryl (Lauren Bracco), a really conservative stranger-hating Caucasian girl, addicted to opium and former blues singer. Jasser sets out on his journey and is hired at a popular cafe owned by Adam (Tony Muhanna), and tries to get shut and win the appreciate of his son Nadia, the restaurant operator.
There, a new friendship is born with an African American rapper named Jerome (Totwizzi), who also will work in the restaurant. For the duration of the film, a conflict arises concerning Jacir and immigration agent Simmons, who consistently thoughts the legitimacy of his official files.
Coinciding with the premiere, Qawasmi will be attending the festival along with movie stars Malek Rahbani and Darius “Twizzi” Tuttwiler – “We are thrilled to have the earth premiere in our hometown of Tennessee at the Nashville Movie Festival! Jaster is a film made, financed and shot in Memphis, Tennessee. Shot through the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine, the movie was a difficult, intractable and expensive task achieved with the aid of many men and women and families who call Tennessee their household.

The 53rd Nashville Movie Pageant celebrates a week-extensive celebration of movie, new music, lifestyle, entertainment and art seminars and will just take spot at the Nashville Center for the Arts from September 29 to October 5, 2022.
Nashville (Nashfilm) options a number of the most effective impartial films which include world cinema, American cinema, novels, documentaries and several short movies by seasoned masters, emerging administrators and initially-time directors.
Also featured in the film are Tony Muhanna (The Insult), Tony Eco-friendly and Jonathan Stoddard (A Fury Little Christmas).
The movie was created by Qawasmi, Mariana Trevino, Larry Tolbert, Marty Kellman, Ron Lazarov, Jill and Scott Notwich.
Al Qawasmi will be joined at the rear of the digital camera by director of photography Ryan Earl Parker (The Artist’s Wife), enhancing by Brian De Elkins, composer Justin Toland and music producers Alfonzo “Al Capone” Bailey and Lawrence “Boo” Mitchell. and stylist Kristen Jones.
“The stage of talent and overall performance of Jasser’s crew, both of those in entrance of and driving the digicam, ought to have to be noticed by the widest viewers achievable and we are delighted to be the system for these very well-deserved movies,” stated Lauren Ponto, director of programming. at the Nashville Film Festival.
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