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.

To view all the film contest winners, visit http://www.linktv.org/onenation.

Posted June 17, 2009