Daniel Pearl film to open in Pakistan
Thursday, December 7, 2006
CBC Arts
A film based on the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl premieres this week at a film festival in the Pakistani city where he was abducted nearly five years ago.
Infinite Justice, by British-Pakistani director Jamil Dehlavi, is the centrepiece of the sixth annual KaraFilm Festival, which begins Thursday in the southern port city of Karachi.
"This is the first time a film on Pearl will be screened in Pakistan," festival organizer Hasan Zaidi said.
The film ââ¬â starring Kevin Collins as an American reporter named Arnold Silverman ââ¬â fictionalizes the story of Pearl, a Jewish-American who was kidnapped and beheaded in Karachi in January 2002 while researching a story about Islamic militants for the Wall Street Journal.
While they held him hostage, Pearl's abductors made several demands of the U.S. government, including the release of Pakistani terror detainees. In the film, Raza Jaffery plays a terrorism mastermind who kidnaps the Pearl-based character in order to secure the release of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
A British-born Islamic militant, Ahmed Saeed Omar Sheikh, was convicted and sentenced to death for Pearl's murder. Three men accused of being co-conspirators were given life imprisonment.
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2006/12/07/daniel-pearl-film.html?ref=rss
Thursday, December 7, 2006
CBC Arts
A film based on the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl premieres this week at a film festival in the Pakistani city where he was abducted nearly five years ago.
Infinite Justice, by British-Pakistani director Jamil Dehlavi, is the centrepiece of the sixth annual KaraFilm Festival, which begins Thursday in the southern port city of Karachi.
"This is the first time a film on Pearl will be screened in Pakistan," festival organizer Hasan Zaidi said.
The film ââ¬â starring Kevin Collins as an American reporter named Arnold Silverman ââ¬â fictionalizes the story of Pearl, a Jewish-American who was kidnapped and beheaded in Karachi in January 2002 while researching a story about Islamic militants for the Wall Street Journal.
While they held him hostage, Pearl's abductors made several demands of the U.S. government, including the release of Pakistani terror detainees. In the film, Raza Jaffery plays a terrorism mastermind who kidnaps the Pearl-based character in order to secure the release of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
A British-born Islamic militant, Ahmed Saeed Omar Sheikh, was convicted and sentenced to death for Pearl's murder. Three men accused of being co-conspirators were given life imprisonment.
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2006/12/07/daniel-pearl-film.html?ref=rss