In Good Faith: Still a work in progress

Some people reading this may know about my last documentary, In Good Faith. The documentary screened last April at Boston College for the first time, and has screened again in a few other viewings on and off the BC Campus. It looks like I will need to revisit the edit for music since I do not have a commercial license to use the music in the original version. Luckily, I found a Tufts student interested in helping me out this summer on the project and will be meeting with him tomorrow. Once I have a version that has no copyright violations, I intend to submit it to a local film festival or two, and maybe try to put it on air at a local cable access station. Anyways, I know a few people are asking about the documentary's status, and that's where I am with it. If you'd like a copy, I am currently making up versions by request of the original cut which you can get here.

Also, I made a few more connections in regards to Turkey today. I had a long conversation at a coffee shop in Boston with a former Fulbrighter to Turkey this morning. She had lots to say about her time in Turkey, not all of it went flawlessly and she in fact had a tough transition due to some wild unforeseen hysteria when traveling abroad to a foreign country. Although, I'm not going to go into the whole conversation we had here, I will say that it has helped me take a wider look at why I am doing all this.

For the most part, I've always attributed my interest to the work involved with In Good Faith and my sophomore living experience, but I do think that my desire has come also from growing up with my Stepfather whose Lebanese background often helps gives him a wider perspective on things. He took a great leap coming to the US, and ended up getting involved with a crazy Irish family from Somerville, MA. Although he made his "leap" for largely different reasons than mine, I do think much of my motivation for getting out of the United States is from the benefits I've had from just growing up around his culture from a safe American base. Now, I can imagine leaving that safe foothold here in the US to take a greater leap into another culture to continue to grow as my Dad has done for me over the last 20 years.

Here's to the journey ahead of us all...


NOTE: For those wondering why I'm noting this is because I'm right now knee deep in a proposal for my Fulbright grant. I've decided by writing my thoughts as they come, and maybe if there are people reading, you may have your own thoughts to share. In any case, this is a pretty easy way of record keeping so I can go back. I did this once before for my first documentary and it was very helpful.