Shereen Noon
Shereen Noon is an independent filmmaker who is of Swedish and Pakistani decent. She grew up in Illinois, Michigan, and Pakistan. She is the founder of Santa Fe's Tano Media Institute, an educational program that guides and supports women filmmakers and the International Women Filmmaker’s Organization (IWF) which is based in L.A. Noon attended CSULB and began her work on films in 1993.
She wrote, directed, and co-produced Body: The Value of Women, a documentary on body image and self-esteem of women in America. She also produced the indie film Paper, Rock, Scissors about a man who leads a very successful life but is depressed. She is in the process of writing a script on the relationships between women.
The website to Body: The Value of Women was down so I wasn’t able to view any clips for the film. Hopefully it will be up later. http://www.thevalueofwomen.com/
It was harder than I thought it would be to find “Women of Color� filmmakers. Noon’s films are shown at festivals and screenings, but as much as I looked, unable to be purchased by the normal consumer. I found out about Shereen Noon at the website http://www.whirledwydeweb.com/iwf/shereennoon.html and at http://imdb.com. I did look at the top 25 list at the website for the magazine Filmmakers and was surprised of how few women filmmakers there were.
Comments
It is a controversial issue for me- in this case. Can Shereen be considered legitimately a "woman of color"?
The famouse wrting in the US by ------Frederick Douglas & others of "White Negroes"- people of color who grow up with people of West cannot accurately perceive the "color" issue which is a softened western white journalist and writers word for "discrimination based on non-white origin. I am sure like in the case of Obama, the president of USA, will be harshly stoned if try for higher than mid level jobs. Why not use "discrimination of non-white & non-christians" rather than "people of color"? There are several kinds of DISCRIMINATION going on in the euroamerican wesern hemisphere due to their unstable weather (cold) and unstable marriages and quick tempered children. Why are the rest of the world paying for their instability with war and pillage? Are they "maniacal" and "destructive" by nature? Has any studies compared the behviors PRIOR to "indoctrinationg" the EAST with weaponized military and "educating" neighboring Iran and Iraq to kill each other with WEAPONS supplied by the West? Are they doing it to now Syria, Pakistan and South America.
The crazy zionist Israelis are always in the "origin" of many wars and destruction while there is NO BLOOD stained in their hands. "miracle" hide-outs.
Posted by: khadija | October 4, 2008 7:35 PM