Annika Pham New York-based boutique distributor Juno Films has acquired North American rights to the intimate and compelling Norwegian documentary “Seyran Ates: Sex, Revolution and Islam,” featuring Turkish-German feminist lawyer and one of the first female imams in Europe.
The deal was brokered by DR Sales ahead of the film’s world premiere at the San Francisco Intl. Film Festival, running April 9-18.The film brings together in front and behind the camera two strong female activists fighting for human rights, LGBTQ people and gender equality within Islam.
Oslo-based Turkish/Norwegian helmer Nefise Özkal Lorentzen was nominated for the History Makers Award in New York City for her film “A Balloon for Allah,” and has been named one of the.
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