2008 Film Contest Grand Prize Finalist: Fasting, Football…
Irfan Rydhan
is a "Multi-Media" artist who has a degree in Architectural design from
U.C. Berkeley. He and his partner, Javaid A. Malik, started their own
Video and Film production company: Jam-Productions.Com
in 1998, as one of the first Muslim owned production houses in the Bay
Area. They have created several documentary films, videos and TV
programs, most of which relate to Islam and being Muslim in America.
You can see samples of their work on YouTube under the name:
jam1productions.
"Fasting, Football and Feasting: An American Muslim Thanksgiving" is documentary about American-Muslim youth, who are followed by a local newspaper reporter during Thanksgiving, which happened to coincide with the month of Ramadan in 2002.
