At the start of the New Year I am honored to have the opportunity to work with Jenny Logico-Cruz, her husband Blonski Cruz and the rest of the Langgam Performance Troupe on the encore run of their debut theater production Swear Not By The Moon – an experimental take on the Shakespeare classic Romeo & Juliet. […]
Earlier today I discovered through my friend’s Alessandro Pavone timeline that VICE journalist/producer Mohammed Rasool has been released by the Turkish authorities. This is very welcome news for VICE and any journalist, local or foreign, working out of Turkey these days and important step the Turkish authorities needed to make in order to win back the trust […]
As I get ready to leave Afghanistan, possibly for a great long while, my thoughts go back to everyone I was fortunate enough to meet and befriend over the past year here in Kabul. I will especially miss the great people I worked with on Afghan Star Season 10, Sesame Street: Afghanistan Season 4 and […]
Almost six months ago, a young woman named Farkhunda was beaten to death by angry mob – right here, in the heart of Kabul. She was killed and her body was desecrated on a street I drove by everyday on my commute to work. I have never looked at the street or the people that […]
The 2015 season of the AfghanPremierLeague is in the bag. I would like to thank Boss Man Nasir Ahmadzai for bringing me along to ride with his posse and my colleague Harmansha Dhillon for being such as cool Co Event Manager. It was a blast and buckets of laughs working with the rest of the […]
Am updating my filmmaking resume and what do I find floating around YouTube? The behind the scenes documentary I produced and directed for the independent feature film Room 213 directed by Keith Sicat and Sari Dalena. Am glad to see Viva making use of it. INSIDE ROOM 213 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYMM_a_jVqw Am still quite proud of it […]
While working at Tolo Tv طلوع I had the pleasure of working with Sajid Jannaty on Season 10 of Afghan Star. We become close friends and I enjoyed working with him and Zuhal Nazari on the backstage program for the show. But years before Sajid joined Tolo, he worked for several years as a translator […]
Dear Colleagues, Before too much time goes by… It’s never too late… OMG SUPERSTAR is just about to start… Pick your line or reason, but we really need to talk about and celebrate AFGHAN STAR Season 10 before we close the books on it for good. AFGHAN STAR, Tolo’s pride and joy. A program almost […]
Earlier this year I was given the opportunity to produce and direct a Public Service Announcement decrying violence against women here in Afghanistan. The client was a local NGO that provides shelter and skills training to Afghan women that have fled domestic violence. I leapt at the opportunity to work on the project. That PSA […]
