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Trip Ziggurat now streaming on PBS Documentaries
You can also watch it on PBS Digital Studious: https://www.pbs.org/video/trip-ziggurat-89tt18/
This Has Already Happened wins Jury Award
We are honored to receive the Jury Award from Pebbles Underground!
Trip Ziggurat Screening & Community Event
Trip Ziggurat Screening & Community Event on June 12 at 7pm at East Window in Boulder, CO
Featuring a Q&A with Usama Alshaibi, Lauren Samblanet, and Ramzy Abueita
Readings from Carolina Ebeid and dena harry saleh, and a presentation by Boulder-Nablus Sister City Project
Mountainfilm Festival and Trip Ziggurat
Lauren and I had such a fun and memorable experience at Mountainfilm festival! It was so great to connect and bond with other artists and filmmakers. I was also so happy to reconnect with my former students who are part of the Mountainfilm Festival crew.
Also a shoutout to Firelight Media, our amazing production studio behind our film Trip Ziggurat.
Trip Ziggurat screening at Mountainfilm Festival in Telluride, Colorado
We are excited to play our film Trip Ziggurat at the Mountain Film Festival on Saturday, May 23 at 3pm @ Sheridan Opera House.
Producer Lauren Samblanet and I will both be there in person.
I will also be part of a Doc Talk Panel: Expanding Pathways for Inclusive Stories (Doc Talk #3).
More information here.
Through the Student Lens featured in the Collegian
“Through the Student Lens” festival presents assorted work, boosts film accessibility
“It’s just nice for us to get together in a dark theater and share a world,” Alshaibi said during the Friday showing. “I really believe that filmmaking is a way to enter another person’s life, to enter someone’s dreams and their desires and their fears, and to share that experience helps us to understand one another a little better. I think it makes a better world when we can all share our stories.” (read more)
Trip Ziggurat at the Chicago Palestine Film Festival
We were so honored and happy to play our film, Trip Ziggurat, at the Chicago Palestine Film Festival, with musician and composer for the film, Raphique Barakat, and producer Lauren Samblanet.
Trip Ziggurat premiers at the Chicago Palestine Film Festival
Our short film, Trip Ziggurat, premiers tonight at the Chicago Palestine Film Festival, and Lauren and I will be there, along with the composer of the soundtrack Raphique Barakat.
Trip Ziggurat Screenings
We are happy to announce that Trip Ziggurat, a new short film by Usama Alshaibi, has several screenings coming up!
This film is edited by Aaron Schillinger, music by Raphique Barakat, produced by Lauren Samblanet and Adam Sekuler.
This film is part of the forthcoming HOMEGROWN: Horizons documentary short film collection, presented by Firelight Media and PBS Digital Studios.
- ACT Human Rights Film Fest, Fort Collins, CO: Screening Date 4/10 at 7:15pm
- Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Fest, Minneapolis, MN: 4/18 at 11:10am
- Chicago Palestine Film Fest, Chicago, IL: Screening Date 4/18 from 6-8p (followed by the feature film Who Killed Alex Odeh?)
- Arab Film Festival at Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI: Festival Dates 5/5-5/10 (screening date not yet set)
- Mountain Film Fest, Telluride, CO: Festival Dates 5/21-5/25 (screening date not set yet)