banned, this sunday

A few months ago, I spent the day work­ing as a movie ex­tra. Be­cause why not. And it turns out a bunch of FLOM­MISTS where there mak­ing the movie. And I was RE­AL­LY AN­NOY­ING ’cause there was no cof­fee.

P.A. Ash­lyn fi­nal­ly brought me cof­fee.

Then I could over­act as an ex­tra.

And pho­tos I took that day – at the mid­cen­tu­ry-styled, wood-pan­elled Stock­ton Met­ro­pol­i­tan Air­port – are avail­able as an ex­clu­sive pho­toes­say on our Pa­tre­on. I grew up across from SFO, sooo – see­ing an air­port to­day still mod­eled like ‘they used to’ is al­ways a blast.
(Wan­na see wat old SFO looked like? Catch the films Bul­lett (1968) and What’s Up Doc? (1972))

I also fell down those stairs and DID NOT hurt my­self.

So wat is the film?

BANNED is the sto­ry of Amal Aba­di and her race against time as the U.S. #Trav­el­Ban threat­ens to send her and her two-year-old son back to Syr­ia be­fore they can be re­unit­ed with her hus­band on the oth­er side of the gate. With the help of a lawyer work­ing pro-bono, a re­bel­lious im­mi­gra­tion of­fi­cer, and the hun­dreds of pro­test­ers de­mand­ing their free­dom, Amal will fight to get her fam­i­ly to safe­ty here in the Unit­ed States …

And it pre­mieres at THE CREST THE­ATRE in Sacra­men­to CAL­I­FOR­NIA USA on 17 De­cem­ber 2017 as part of Cinepalooza! De­tails here.

And if you say you’re a FLOM­MIST, you get in free.

(Ac­tu­al­ly you get in free any­way, but tell ’em you’re a FLOM­MIST. See wat they do. Roll eyes. Laugh. Any­thing could hap­pen.)

BANNED was also a a grantee of a Sacra­men­to Cre­ative Econ­o­my Pi­lot Project mi­cro­grant – which is help­ing pay for rental of the air­port – and ac­cord­ing to writer/director Jas­mine Ali, the abil­i­ty “to take BANNED to as (hope­ful­ly, fin­gers crossed!) many film fes­ti­vals as pos­si­ble.”

For MOR about BANNED, here’s web­site. WANT to get BANNED in your lo­cal film fes­ti­val? Have ’em con­tact the film­mak­ers here.
 
 

—steve mehal­lo

Flom­mist Steve Mehal­lo is a graph­ic de­sign­er, il­lus­tra­tor, font de­sign­er, ed­u­ca­tor, food­ie and gad­fly. He is the cre­ator and founder of FLOMM!

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