“I Am You” World Premiere with Director/Producer Sonia Nassery Cole & ChanceTV
World Premier Screening of “I AM YOU” Feb 6th, 2020 Director/Producer Sonia Nassery Cole, Producers: Halima Aden, Alex Sutherland & Federico Pignatelli at Pier 59 Studios in NYC.
“I AM YOU” is an independent feature film based on the true story of Afghan refugees, their will to survive, and the dramatic conditions they endure on their journeys. Directed by Sonia Nassery Cole, we follow Massoud, a young man who embarks on a perilous migration from Afghanistan through Iran, Turkey, Greece and Germany, accompanied by a pregnant doctor and an aged wise man.
After witnessing the loss of his father at the hands of ISIS, Massoud vows to honor his late father’s wish to secure a safe future for his mother and sister away from the tyranny of the Taliban and ISIS.
The current refugee crisis is the largest since WWII; I AM YOU is an evocative depiction of the resilience of those forced to flee in their countries and overcome trauma and hardship in search of hope.
65.6 million people are currently living as refugees or as displaced persons inside their countries. More than half of the world’s refugees are under the age of 18 with many children fleeing alone or separated from their parents.
Sonia Nassery Cole Bio:
During the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the ’80s, Sonia Nassery Cole escaped to the U.S. There she wrote a letter to then-President Reagan: who invited her to the Oval Office to discuss the conflicts in Afghanistan. She is an author, humanitarian and activist. She founded the Afghanistan World Foundation. In 2013, she received the Freedom to Write Award from PEN Center USA. She also received the “Congressional Recognition” award, the “Afghan American Sisterhood Award,” and the “UN Women Together Award.
Produced by
| Halima Aden | … | executive producer |
| Chris Cole | … | producer |
| Sonia Nassery Cole | … | producer |
| Barrie Moskowitz | … | associate producer |
| Federico Pignatelli | … | executive producer |
| Zeynep Santiroglu | … | associate producer |
| Lance Stuart | … | executive producer |
| Sam Stuart | … | associate producer |
| Alex Sutherland | … | producer |
Gokhan Tiryaki
Cinematographer “Winter Sleep” (Palme d’Or) and “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia” (Grand Prix) and Asif Kapadia’s “Ali and Nino”
CAST:
Damla Sonmez, Emre Cetinkaya, Cansu Tosun, Ali Aksoz, Defne Kayalar, Muhammet Cangoren & Ramazan Demir
For those of you who were not able to make it, we are working hard to secure distribution so you can see it theatrically and/or on a streaming service soon! An easy way to help make that happen is by contacting Amazon, and asking when I AM YOU by Sonia Nassery Cole will be available on Amazon Prime. You can do so by starting a live chat and asking the support representative if the film will be available.
Link to Amazon Live Chat for your convenience:
https://www.amazon.com/message-us?origRef=de_poc&ref_=de_poc
Additionally, if you’d like to directly help refugees, much like the ones depicted in the film, you can easily make a donation to Afghanistan World Foundation & UNICEF USA by texting the code “dontlookaway” to 855-735-2437. Or head to text.gives/dontlookaway and follow the instructions to make your donation, it’s that simple!
You can also follow @iamyou.film to follow our journey on Instagram- please feel free to give us your feedback.
For more information about the film, please visit: https://iamyou.film/
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