Sheila Johnson: “The Other City” Interview

with Kam Williams

Headline: A Heart-to-Heart with America’s First Black Billionaires

Entrepreneur and philanthropist Sheila Crump Johnson is the only African-American female to enjoy ownership in three professional sports teams: the WNBA’s Washington Mystics, the NBA’s Washington Wizards and the NHL’s Washington Capitals. Furthermore, as CEO of Salamander Hospitality, a company she founded in 2005, Ms. Johnson oversees a growing portfolio of luxury properties, including Woodlands Inn, in Summerville, SC, which is one of only a handful of properties to receive both a prestigious Forbes Five Star rating and a AAA Five Diamond rating for lodging and dining.
In 2007, she acquired Innisbrook, a Salamander Golf & Spa Resort. Set on 900 acres, this 72-hole Florida getaway hosts the PGA Tour’s annual Transitions Championship and the LPGA Legends Tour Open Championship. The company is also building the eagerly-anticipated Salamander Resort & Spa, nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in charming Middleburg, VA.
In addition, Johnson is a partner in ProJet Aviation, a company specializing in aviation consulting, aircraft acquisitions, management, and charter services based in Winchester, VA. And she is a partner in Mistral, a maker of fine bath, body and home products.
Ms. Johnson has long been a powerful influence in the entertainment industry as a founding partner of Black Entertainment Television (BET) and, most recently, as a film producer. In partnership with other investors, her first film, Kicking It, premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. She executive produced her second film, A Powerful Noise, which premiered at the 2008 TriBeCa Film Festival in New York, as well as her third film, She Is The Matador.
In 2006 she was named global ambassador for CARE, a leading humanitarian organization fighting poverty worldwide by empowering women since they are in a pivotal position to help their communities escape poverty. “Sheila’s I Am Powerful Challenge” was instrumental in raising funds for this important work.
A fervent supporter of the arts and education, she was recently appointed by Barack Obama to the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities and serves as Chair of the Board of Governors of Parsons The New School for Design in New York. She sits on the boards of Americans for the Arts, the Jackie Robinson Foundation, the Tiger Woods Foundation, the University of Virginia Curry School of Education, Howard University, the University of Illinois Foundation, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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An accomplished violinist, Ms. Johnson received a Bachelor of Arts in music from the University of Illinois, as well as honorary degrees from numerous other institutions. Ms. Johnson, who lives in Middleburg, VA, is a mother of two, and remarried to the Honorable William T. Newman, Jr.
Here, she talks about her new film, The Other City, an expose’ about the HIV/AIDS crisis in Washington, DC which recently premiered at the 2010 TriBeCa Film Festival.

Kam Williams: Hi, Ms. Johnson, it’s an honor to speak with you.
Sheila Johnson: Thanks, Kam, how are you?
KW: Fine thanks. I saw The Other City and loved it, and I told my readers I’d be interviewing you, so I have plenty of questions to get to.
SJ: Oh, great!
KW: Reverend Florine Thompson asks, what is it about HIV/AIDS that prompted you to produce the film?
SJ: I really wanted to do this film in order to ignite the discussion, and to reeducate. What has been happening, that is so wrong right now is that AIDS has disappeared from the radar screen. It’s no longer a celebrity-driven cause anymore, so I wanted to bring it back to the people. I also wanted to give dignity to the victims now suffering with AIDS, so that people can see not only that the disease hasn’t gone away, but is spreading at an alarming rate and disproportionately affecting African-American women. So, I think we need to get out and start educating young people, and especially the black churches need to be talking about it from the pulpit. And we, as a society, need to stop hiding behind the stigma in order to be able to give the disease the platform we need to start the reeducation process and halt the increase in the transmission rate.
KW: 2010 Florida State University grad Laz Lyles would like to know what was the most surprising thing you’ve discovered about the epidemic?
SJ: How it has increasingly become a heterosexual disease. The thing I wished the movie had emphasized more was how many married women we now have coming down with it. Their husbands are bringing it home to them. I had three women come up to me and say that the only sin they committed in life was getting married. That’s very sad. The other surprising thing we’re finding is that AIDS is hitting at a younger age, as young as 13 among gay males.
KW: Lester Chisholm says that Urban Prep, an African-American male charter high school in Chicago has a 100% college acceptance rate, and it’s aiming for a 100% college graduation rate. He wonders whether we might accomplish a 100% success rate in the fight against AIDS, if we adopted this same attitude for a given population.
SJ: I think that we really could stop this disease, if we seriously educate our young people, starting in junior high, and continue delivering the message in high schools and across college campuses. I really do. Meanwhile, scientists and doctors are still working on finding a cure, and some say they’re getting closer and closer. Between education and research, we can stop it.
KW: Larry Greenberg says, “I know that in addition to your enormous accomplishments in business and philanthropy you are a virtuoso violinist.” He asks, “Do you still find time to play?”
SJ: I don’t. I’m very ashamed about that. My mother’s on me all the time about that, and so, is my husband. He always says, “You’re such a great violinist. Why don’t you keep playing?” I guess what has happened is that between raising a family and trying to keep businesses afloat I just do not have the time to practice, because I’m such a perfectionist. I suppose I could make the time, even if I sat down for just an hour every day, but I’ve lost the discipline of practice.
KW: Rev Thompson asks, “Who has been your role model along your journey? Who or what has been your source of inspiration in life?”
SJ: I’d have to say there have been many, many people. Basically, educators have been my role models. There are two teachers in particular, from high school and college, who I stay in touch with and talk to on about a monthly basis. And as I’ve gotten older, there have been more and more people I’ve met in life who’ve become role models. Four years ago, I remarried, and my husband is one of the most inspiring men I’ve ever met. He’s a Chief Judge, and I just love to watch him on the bench to observe how he tries to find a silver lining in the most hardened of criminals in order to give them a second chance. Another person I admire is the President of the University of Illinois, Joe White, who I think is brilliant. He’s always giving me terrific advice on different issues. I am lucky to have a lot of extraordinary friends who really do help me including, of course, my mother, who’s living with me now. She was there from the beginning, and even at the age of 87, she’s still constantly pushing me forward, encouraging me with, “You can do it!” and “Don’t give up!”
KW: Reverend Thompson asks, “What would you like to accomplish that you haven’t already?”
SJ: I’m in the third act of my life with this hospitality company, Salamander. The one thing I really want to do is to continue to build this resort that I’ve been working on in Middleburg, Virginia. My goal is to get it finished and open. It’s been a seven-year battle for me, because I very naively built south of the Mason-Dixon Line. I didn’t realize that there was still this much racial tension in the country. I was very naïve about it. Racism smacked me right in the face while doing this project, but I did not want to lose this war.
KW: So, I guess the rumors I’ve heard about what you’ve encountered are true.
SJ: It was unbelievable… the death threats… you have no idea.
KW: Did you regret endorsing Republican Bob McDonnell for Governor of Virginia, given that after he won the election he issued a proclamation declaring April Confederate History Month?
SJ: Yep, I think I’ve been thrown under the bus. It was quite an embarrassment. My husband had warned me, too. The one thing I learned from this experience is that I will never get involved in politics again on either side. I’m declaring myself an independent. I was just shocked. A group of us, including the President of Hampton University plan to meet with the Governor soon to discus it.
KW: Yale grad Tommy Russell says, "Since you're a former media executive, what do you think about Comcast's move to buy a controlling stake in NBC/Universal--good move or bad move from NBC's perspective?"
SJ: Well, I will tell you that not only print, but all media are struggling right now. These are business decisions that only the people running the company can really answer. Those on the outside shouldn’t be too judgmental about these mergers. There are reasons why they’re happening, and it’s really for the survival of the market.
KW: From Reverend Thompson again: What most informs your spirituality?
SJ: I have always been a strong Christian? Growing up, I never missed church. I’m not as good about going right now, because I’m always travelling so much. But I pray every day… before I get out of bed…and when I go to bed at night. I have a very strong spiritual core.
KW: Finally, the Rev asks, what advice would you give a young lady who seeks the level of success you've attained?
SJ: Stay humble. Don’t ever, ever take anything for granted in life. Don’t assume anything. It’s is very important to have love and passion for whatever you do.
KW: Is there any question no one ever asks you, that you wish someone would?
SJ: [Chuckles] I wish someone would ask me to be an ambassador someday.
KW: The Tasha Smith question: Are you ever afraid?
SJ: Yes, there are times when I’m afraid. Just building that hotel in Middleburg made me fearful on many different levels. Sometimes, I get anxious. One of my biggest problems is that I tend to get very impatient, especially during this recession. I’m a little bit afraid about the economy, because it really does affect everyone, and you just don’t know what’s going to happen.
KW: The Columbus Short question: Are you happy?
SJ: I am very happy. I have reached a point in my life where I feel safe for the first time. In my personal life, I have lots of friends, and I’ve learned to be comfortable with myself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything. I’m following my passion, and I wake up everyday wanting to do more.
KW: The bookworm Troy Johnson question: What was the last book you read?
SJ: Game Change.

KW: The music maven Heather Covington question: What are you listening to on your iPod?
SJ: It depends on my mood. I tend to listen to a lot of jazz. If I’m going to bed at night, I might listen to classical music, but I do like jazz.
KW: What is your favorite dish to cook?
SJ: Anything that is Italian. Pasta is my favorite food in the world.
KW: The Teri Emerson question: When was the last time you had a good laugh?
SJ: [LOL] I laugh every day. Let me think f the funniest thing that happened recently... My husband is a very funny man for a judge. He just told me a joke that I can’t remember, but he keeps me laughing all the time.
KW: The Ling-Ju Yen question: What is your earliest childhood memory?
SJ: It would my first day of school in kindergarten. I was sitting in the classroom, and the little boy across the table made pee-pee on my foot, and I’ll never forget that. [Chuckles]
KW: When you look in the mirror, what do you see?
SJ: Oh, I see a woman that is aging gracefully, who’s happy, and seems to be at peace with herself.
KW: If you could have one wish instantly granted, what would that be for?
SJ: To recover from this recession and have my hotel opened.
KW: The Uduak Oduok question: Who is your favorite clothes designer?
SJ: Donna Karan.
KW: The Laz Alonso question: How can your fans help you?
SJ: By, instead of asking for a handout, offering to help me help others.
KW: How do you want to be remembered?
SJ: As a woman who was always generous, not only with her pocketbook, but with her heart.
KW: Well, thank you for being so generous with your time, thoughts and feelings here. I really appreciate it.
SJ: You are so welcome.

Shrek Forever After

 

 

Film Review by Kam Williams

Headline: Ogre Matches Wits with Rumpelstiltskin in Uninspired Franchise Finale

 

                As first adapted to the screen in 2001 from William Steig’s popular children’s book, Shrek was an enchanting fairy tale with a marvelous moral about appreciating each other’s inner beauty. While delivering that heartwarming message, the picture kept you in stitches via the hilarious antics of the title character (Mike Myers) and his trash-talking companion, Donkey (Eddie Murphy). Although that animated adventure spawned a couple of engaging-enough sequels, judging by Shrek Forever After it is clear that the scriptwriters have run out of ideas for the expiring franchise.

                This uninspired finale is set soon after the conclusion of the original film, thereby inexplicably ignoring the developments of Shreks 2 and 3. At the point of departure, we find the once-feared, ugly green ogre presently living in the swamp with Fiona (Cameron Diaz) and their three kids. However, he’s already grown discontent with married life and with the fact that he’s beloved rather than feared by the local villagers.

So he enters a pact with Rumpelstiltskin (Walt Dohrn), a diminutive con man who promises to transform him back into his former scary self for a day. But Shrek signs without read the contract’s fine print first, which says that after the 24-hour period expires he will disappear as if he had never even existed. Consequently, Shrek is suddenly transported back in time to but before he ever met Donkey and his other pals, or even his wife. Saddled with overwhelming regret, Shrek learns that his only hope to reverse the curse rests in the agreement’s escape clause is triggered only if he kisses Princess Fiona.

                Of course, this proves easier said than done, since he must first locate and then convince her that he’s not a stranger but already her husband in a parallel reality. Furthermore, Rumpelstiltskin, just like the villain of Shrek 1, is a dwarf with designs on the throne of the land of Far, Far Away. Another similarity has Shrek again befriending Donkey before embarking on a quest to rescue both the fair maiden and her family’s peaceable kingdom.

                Unfortunately, the dialogue, which was formerly marked by witty repartee and clever allusions to classic cartons and nursery rhymes, has been replaced by unimaginative exchanges lifted out of the hack screenplay handbook. In particular, Ebonics-accented Donkey has become an offensive caricature trading in a number of best-forgotten stereotypes.

Besides being afraid practically of his own shadow, ala Stepin’ Fetchit, the cowardly creature trades in malapropisms that would make Pigmeat Markham and Kingfish sound like they were speaking the Queen’s English. To top it off, he is an irresponsible baby-daddy who is either so dumb or so irresponsible that he doesn’t know whether or not he’s a father. And then, when he belatedly acknowledges paternity, he apologizes that his offspring might be so ugly as to make other people feel uncomfortable.

It’s no surprise that Dreamworks Animation has reportedly already cancelled plans to shoot a planned spinoff revolving around Antonio Banderas’ character Puss in Boots. A dumbed-down ripoff strictly for the tyke demographic too young to notice that the flick’s a thinly-veiled retread.

 

Fair (1 star)

Rated PG for crude humor, action and brief mild epithets.

Running time: 93 Minutes

Studio: Paramount Pictures

 

 

Two in the Wave (FRENCH)

(Deux de la Vague)
Film Review by Kam Williams

Headline: Documentary Deconstructs the Turbulent Friendship of Godard and Truffaut

Jean-Luc Godard (born in 1930) and Francois Truffaut (1932-1984) were at the forefront of the group of emerging film directors who founded the New Wave Movement in Paris back in the Fifties. Both of these iconoclasts started out as critics in the wake of WWII when French cinema had become so stale, that Truffaut roundly lambasted it in print as “artificial and uptight.” And after subsequently being banned from Cannes for indicting the annual festival as academic and corrupt, the brash young upstart decided to try his hand at making movies himself.
Since Godard felt the same way about the state of his country’s film industry, he and Truffaut easily bonded and became the best of friends, even backing and writing for each other’s early productions. During that renowned renaissance period, the fact that they came from very different backgrounds was never an issue.
Francois, who had been born out of wedlock, never knew his Jewish biological father. Instead, he was raised Catholic by his maternal grandmother in rather humble surroundings, and ended up not only dropping out of high school but frequently in trouble with the law, including doing a stint in prison as an army deserter.
By contrast, Jean-Luc hailed from a wealthy, Protestant family. Still, he and Francois found a sort of similar salvation in cinema despite neither having any experience beyond having watched thousands of movies. These so-called “Young Turks” proceeded to subvert the dominant paradigm with such flicks as “The 400 Blows” (Truffaut) and “Breathless” (Godard).
However, their paths began to divert in 1968 when Truffaut remained indifferent to the student and civil rights uprisings at the same time that Godard would embrace the rise of radical politics. The pair finally parted ways for good following a series of heated exchanges in which Jean-Luc called Francois “bourgeois” and the latter responded by referring to his ex-pal as a “propagandist.”
This tempestuous relationship plus a most informative chronicling of their substantial cinematic contributions are the subject of Two in the Wave, a brilliant, bifurcated bio-pic directed by Emmanuel Laurent. The discussion here is amply augmented by illustrative snippets from some of their classic pictures, and by rare footage of these icons in the company of legendary colleagues like Hitchcock and Chabrol.
A fascinating and informative, must-see documentary for any serious cinephile

Excellent (4 stars)
Unrated
In French with subtitles.
Running time: 93 Minutes
Distributor: Lorber Films

MacGruber

Film Review by Kam Williams

Headline: Will Forte Stars in Latest Woeful Adaptation of SNL Skit

MacGruber is a recurring sketch which has been running on Saturday Night Live (SNL) since January of 2007. Each episode is designed as a thinly-veiled spoof of MacGyver, the popular ABC-TV series from the Eighties that revolved around the daring exploits of a resourceful secret agent who’d served in Vietnam as a bomb defusal expert. In the SNL parody, however, Will Forte plays the title character as a butterfingered bungler who invariably gets distracted from his assignment and fails to deactivate the explosive in time to prevent himself and his comrades from being blown to smithereens.

Whoever decided it might be a good idea to try to flesh out this two-minute skit into an hour-and-a-half long feature film, must be the same genius who thought that what the world needed was another SNL-inspired, stretch-o-matic spinoff like such abysmal offerings as The Ladies Man (2000), Superstar (1999), A Night at the Roxbury (1998), Stuart Saves His Family (1995), It’s Pat (1994) and Coneheads (1993). Other than the first two, The Blues Brothers (1980) and Wayne’s World (1992), these ill-advised endeavors have uniformly proven pretty disastrous.

In the case of MacGruber, what we’re dealing with is a particularly-reprehensible, one-trick pony which relies on incessant profanity and crude appeals to baser instincts as its primary brand of humor. For instance, there’s a running joke which gets stale fast in the pronunciation of the villain Dieter Von Cunth’s (Val Kilmer) surname, since the “h” is silent.

This affords MacGruber countless opportunities to spout offensive double entendres on the order of “It’s time to pound some Cunth.” That’s not the only curse word the hapless hero’s fond of either, as the expletive-laced dialogue has him saying everything from, “[Beep] you! [Beep] head!” to “You’re a piece of [Beep]” to “I will [Beep] your [Beep]-ing {Beep]. How did it take a trio of scriptwriters, namely John Solomon, Forte and director Jorma Taccone, to create such unwatchable garbage? They must’ve all been on stupid pills.

Nonetheless, fans of infantile gross-out gags might appreciate being treated to the sight of MacGruber’s pimply posterior as he prances across the screen buck naked with a stalk of celery stuck in his anal cleft for no apparent reason beyond comic relief. From what, I have no idea.

Still, there are the rudiments of plotline to follow for those still considering checking out this insult the intelligence. If you must know, it’s of the formulaic “soldier of fortune coaxed of retirement and reassembles a crack team of commandos in order to save the world from his diabolical nemesis in possession of a nuclear warhead” variety. To the surprise of no one, the film’s fulcrum predictably pivots around whether or not they’ll be able to defuse the missile before the madman has a chance to launch the weapon at the White House.

A “sleazy does it” production that looks like it was improvised on the spot with a lack of conviction by a bunch of 12 year-olds desperate for attention.

Poor (0 stars)
Rated R for violence, profanity, nudity, crude humor and graphic sexuality.
Running time: 88 Minutes
Distributor: Universal Pictures

Entre Nos

Film Review by Kam Williams

Headline: Immigration Drama Recounts Abandoned Mom’s Real-Life Struggle to Survive in U.S.

Mariana (Paola Mendoza) had every reason to be optimistic when she arrived in New York City from Colombia with her 6 year-old daughter (Laura Montana Cortez) and 10 year-old son (Sebastian Villada Lopez) in tow. After all, she was rejoining her husband who had immigrated to the U.S. ahead of the rest of the family in order to get a solid foothold in the land of opportunity.
However, the sweet reunion proves to be short lived, after Antonio (Andres Munar) comes home very late from work one night with some good news and some bad news. The good news is that he’s just got a better job in Miami. The bad news is that his wife and children can’t relocate there with him, although he does promise to support them the interim until he’s sufficiently settled for them to move down, too.
But the creep simply skips town, and never bothers to send a penny or even offer any explanation. And by the time that the truth finally sinks in that Antonio has ostensibly abandoned her for a mistress, Mariana only has about $50 left to her name with rent due and mouths to feed. Since she barely speaks English, the desperate woman starts selling meat patties on the streets of Queens to keep a roof over their heads. When that proves disastrous, she and the kids have to resort to dumpster diving for recyclable cans and bottles to redeem.
Unfortunately, the tale of woe spun here isn’t merely a fictional drama but an actual account of an American Dream deferred. For Entre Nos is a thinly-veiled autobiography written by, directed by and starring Paola Mendoza, a Bogota-born beauty who now plays her own mother, although she was the young daughter at the time the real-life events in the picture transpired.
The film unfolds as a series of relentlessly-grim scenarios which add up to paint a plausible picture of the enormous challenges encountered by foreigners endeavoring to adjust to this country’s unforgiving inner-city environs. Miraculously, against all odds, the hardy trio not only survives but ultimately flourishes, with the audience being informed via telling, closing credits postscripts that matriarch Mariana eventually remarried and had another daughter, that her stoic, young son grew up to become a successful college administrator, and that little Paola became a brilliant filmmaker who fashioned this uplifting bio-pic as a cinematic tribute to her beloved mother.
A bittersweet saga chronicling both the rough lot of the recent immigrant and the indomitability of the human spirit.

Excellent (4 stars)
Unrated
In Spanish with subtitles.
Running time: 80 Minutes
Distributor: IndiePix Films

Extraordinary Measures DVD

 

 

DVD Review by Kam Williams

Headline: DVD Recounts Parents’ “Extraordinary Measures” to Save Sick Kids

 

                Two of John (Brendan Fraser) and Aileen (Keri Russell) Crowley’s three children were born with Pompe Disease, a condition which prevents the body from digesting sugar. At the time, infants diagnosed with the rare genetic disorder typically died before two years of age. That’s why, when their daughter, Megan (Meredith Droeger), and son, Patrick (Diego Velasquez), reached their 6^th and 8^th birthdays, respectively, doctors suggested that they should be content with the fact that both had managed to survive beyond their life expectancy.

Nonetheless, John, a Harvard MBA employed by the pharmaceutical company Bristol Myers, decided to dedicate himself to saving his kids’ lives. So, he traveled to the University of Nebraska to meet face-to-face with Dr. Robert Stonehill (Harrison Ford), the leading scientist doing research on Pompe Disease.

Next, both John and the brilliant, if unorthodox professor both quit their jobs in order to create a biotech foundation with the sole purpose of finding a cure for Pompe. Thus, while the highly-motivated father relied on his business background to raise $100 million dollars, Dr. Stonehill focused on discovering a drug which would do the work of the Pompe patients’ missing enzyme.

                Directed by Tom Vaughan, Extraordinary Measures is based on “The Cure: How a Father Raised $100 Million –and Bucked the Medical Establishment—in a Quest to Save His Children,” a best seller by Pulitzer Prize-winner Geeta Anand. This tender tearjerker basically revolves around the strained relationship of Mr. Crowley and Dr. Stonehill during the agonizing wait to see whether Megan and Patrick will be blessed with their much needed medical miracle.

Harrison Ford, shines though cast against type, as do Brendan Fraser and Keri Russell in a syrupy saga which somehow proves moving, in spite of a fairly formulaic, Hollywood approach to the execution of the Crowleys’ truly inspirational story.       

 

Very Good (3 stars)

Rated PG for mature themes, suggestive material and mild epithets.

Running time: 106 Minutes

Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

 DVD Extras: Deleted scenes and go behind the scenes with interviews with both the cast and the family whose true story inspired the film.

American Radical DVD

 

 

DVD Review by Kam Williams

Headline: DVD Features Controversial Jewish Intellectual Questioning Israel’s Legitimacy

 

                The subtitle of this bio-pic might be a bit of a misnomer, since Norman Finkelstein is never on trial during this riveting documentary, at least not in the legal sense. But the incendiary professor and Palestinian apologist does go mano-a-mano for the duration of the movie against an attorney, namely, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz.

                If Finkelstein weren’t Jewish and the son of Holocaust survivors, he would undoubtedly be labeled an anti-Semite by his detractors. For, employing the most strident of tones and in relentless fashion, he has built his career as a public intellectual around indicting Israel for committing crimes against humanity.

                While he’s apparently too controversial a figure to land a permanent teaching position anywhere, Finkelstein has enjoyed brief stays at a number of leading universities. Plus, the peripatetic prof ostensibly gets a kick out of making the rounds on the college lecture circuit where he routinely outrages Jewish students while being cheered by Muslim sympathizers.

                Judging from this film, ever-beleaguered and self-righteous Norman ain’t exactly normal. For instance, in debating Dershowitz, he hammers away by making petty allegations of plagiarism having nothing to do with the Arab-Israeli conflict, instead of directly addressing his adversary’s stance on the political issues. Nonetheless, co-directors Nicolas Rossier and David Ridgen suggest that most of the fearless firebrand’s colleagues quietly support his right to exercise his freedom of speech, although few are willing to do so as openly as MIT’s Noam Chomsky.

Overall, American Radical manages to paint Finkelstein very empathetically, sort of as a well-meaning, if loony loudmouth whose rants deserve respect if only because virtually all of his relatives were exterminated by Hitler. The question begged but left unanswered by this even-handed treatment of the Middle East standoff is whether or not academia might be ready to give tenure to a more-palatable, pointy-headed chin-puller with better-reasoned objections to the existence of the State of Israel.

 

Excellent (4 stars)

Unrated

In English, Hebrew and Arabic with subtitles.

Running time: 89 Minutes

Distributor: Typecast Releasing

DVD Extras: Deleted scenes, theatrical trailer and other Typecast Releasing trailers.