Husam “Sam” Asi
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Asi vs HFPA and Greg Geockner
May 11, 2022: Asi files a lawsuit against the HFPA, COO Greg Goeckner and crisis manager James Lee at California’s Superior Court. June 16, 2022: HFPA releases only a portion of their investigation report, which clears…
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Asi Kindergarten
In 2020, I established a kindergarten for orphans at the Shatila Refugee Camp in South Beirut, Lebanon. So far, it serves 80 children. Hopefully, we will expand it in the near future in order to serve…
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Behind The Scene Of LA LA Land Awards Campaign
Last month, “La La Land” broke the record for most Golden Globes won by a single film after snagging 7 trophies out of 7 nominations. Two weeks later, it made history again when it collected 14…
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Is Green Truly Hollywood’s Favorite Color?
The visage of Tilda Swinton in Marvel’s recently released “Doctor Strange”, in which the English actress plays the Asian Ancient one, has yet again highlighted one of Hollywood’s most criticized habits: Whitewashing, namely casting white actors…
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Dubai International Film Festival empowers female directors in the Middle East
While the region around it has descended in political chaos and religious strife, Dubai continues to flourish and prosper, becoming an oasis of harmony and progress, where the natives constitute less than 12% of its multinational…
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How Did New Technology Impact The Making of The New “Mad Max”?
When Australian director, George Miller, embarked in 1979 on making the futuristic action thriller “Mad Max” with an unknown actor in the lead, Mel Gibson, and with less than a $1 million budget and with the…
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Is Cinema dying?
Since its release 3 weeks ago, Furious 7, has been breaking one record after another at the box office, scoring the second-biggest worldwide opening of all time ($397.2 million) behind only Harry Potter and the Deathly…
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Rihanna is too busy to have a man in her life – interview
Pop stars are not known for being punctilious particularly when it comes to press interviews, so I was not surprised when Rihanna’s assistant announced that her boss was going to be late to our rendezvous, ostensibly…
