The Light In Her Eyes

IFW: 17 IN…

Are audiences ready to spend 85 minutes immersed in the lives of conservative Muslim women in Syria? That’s the big question this week. 17 meetings in, and a box of band-aids later and we think things are going well. So far we’ve met with POV, HBO, Impact partners, Sundance, SXSW, foreign co-producers, other funders, and a few sales agents. People seem interested, and often enthusiastic. Everyone wants to see the rough cut. And as soon as we think it’s ready to show them we will. We were hoping more broadcasters would have come from Europe, since we met with many […]
by Laura Nix on Sep 26, 2011
IFW: THE BIG QUESTION

The following post was written on my way to IFP Film Week, which ends today. Are audiences ready to spend 85 minutes immersed in the lives of conservative Muslim women in Syria? That’s the big question this week. Many delays at LAX today. But there’s no comparing our airport to the one in Damascus. Here, people are shuffling on board the airplane with Starbucks in one hand, Burger King in the other, arguing the finer points of how to get an upgrade. In Damascus, people are stuffing every last inch of their luggage with dates, nuts, and Syrian chocolate, hugging relatives […]
by Laura Nix on Sep 22, 2011
IFW: “THE LIGHT IN HER EYES” DIRECTOR JULIA MELTZER, #1

The last three months of the last three years have been grueling and gratifying. We started shooting The Light In Her Eyes, about the leader of a women’s Qur’an school in Damascus, Syria,in June 2008. Flash forward to June 2011, and we’re still searching through our forest of footage to find the structure and story that we’re sure is there. And then suddenly in August—it creeps up on us and takes us by surprise—we have a solid rough cut! It feels both miraculous and expected. Now it’s the Friday before IFP’s film week and Laura and I are sitting in […]
by Julia Meltzer on Sep 18, 2011

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