Filmmakers Focus on Muslim College Experience
By Kellie Bramlet

Milwaukee should get ready for its close-up - shooting for "Generation Jazba," an independent film about Muslim college students in Milwaukee, is tentatively scheduled to begin in May of 2007.
Writer and director Brooke Maroldi and producer Allyson Bahr said they plan to show the movie at prominent independent film festivals including Tribeca, Sundance and Toronto, among others. In order to help reach this goal they are holding a fundraiser tonight, where promotional material for the movie will also be shot, according to a press release.
Based on a story by Qudsia Sethi, the film follows the lives of a group of Muslim college students living in Milwaukee as they struggle to find their place in a world between their Muslim roots and American society.
Their goal is "to portray a minority in a way that's realistic and fair and give people a lot to think about," Maroldi said…(Courtesy Marquette Tribune, 3/23/06)
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