ME, THE »OTHER«
SUN 21.07.
11 am
EVANGELISCHES GEMEINDEHAUS
US 2018 · Dokumentary · 93 min.
Director Shidan Majidi
Language English
The current climate of prejudice inspired this documentary, which is guaranteed to spark conversations about “otherness” and “oneness”. The film explores the lives of students from universities in Michigan, USA. The diverse group ranges from an African-American student from Flint who tells a story of its water crisis, a student from Mexico in fear of deportation, a Pakistani Muslim immigrant, an Interracial married couple, a #Me Too story, a gay couple living with chronic illness and a 66-year-old transgender student who was homeless and alcohol and drug-dependent but chose education over suicide. The message of the film is clear: we are all different but worth the same.
Director
Shidan Majidi
Screenplay
Catherine Chapman
Director of photography
Sloan Inns
Editing
Chad Kremer
Score
Levi Taylor
Sound design
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Lighting
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Producer
Shidan Majidi, Shahrzad Maghsoudloo Mirafzali
Studio
MTO Productions
Director's biography
Shidan Majidi has been working in New York’s film and theater industries since 1991. He began as a volunteer at 52nd Street Project – an after school program focused on inner city youths telling their own stories using theater. Inspired by its empowerment and confidence-building scope, Majidi started more similar projects in New York and Toronto in the late 90s. For the past eighteen years, he has been working on Broadway for Producer Sir Cameron Mackintosh on some of the world’s most beloved musicals: CATS, LES MISÉRABLES, MISS SAIGON, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. Considering recent developments in American society he tries to remind people that for all our physical differences, all men and women are equal in their hopes and dreams.
Director's filmography
Worked as Production Associate on the Academy and Golden Globe Award-winning film LES MISÉRABLES starring Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway and directed by Tom Hooper.