2008 Film Contest Grand Prize Finalist: Umi's Heart
Joslyn Rose Lyons is an Award Winning Filmmaker. She founded her own film house JOG9 productions in 2002, where she went on to direct/produce the award winning feature length documentary film "Soundz of Spirit".Her film, "Umi's Heart" was named a finalist for the 60-second spot category.
"Umi's Heart" is the story of two brothers, having to broach the sometime difficult subject of religious conversion. Adam and Ezra are thrust into a theological joust, upon Adam refusing to eat a pepperoni pizza, which he did not order. Ezra insists that he just pick it off, and this spills over into a much deeper discussion of Adam's newly adopted religious beliefs. As their debate stumbles through the ideological differences of their faiths, Adam attempts to find common ground in the memory of their Mother (Umi in arabic).
