Documentary on Tsunami Relief Trip Led by MPAC Board Member to Debut in NYC on Oct. 7th
October 02, 2006
On Saturday, October 7th in New York City, the South Asian Film Festival will debut "Becoming Family," a tsunami-relief documentary by Carl Strecker that depicts the efforts of a group of medical students who travel to Sri Lanka in mid-2005 to administer aid to tsunami stricken areas. The team is led by MPAC board member Dr. Rahmi Mowjood, who also traveled to Sri Lanka during the immediate aftermath of the December 2004 tsunami.
During the trip, Dr. Mowjood mentored the students through the emotionally draining relief work, shared the hospitality of his Sri Lankan family with the team, and found time to become engaged to the woman he’d been courting for six months leading to a climactic wedding ceremony at the conclusion of the exhausting trip.
"Becoming Family" follows the group as they all see first-hand how the simplest of acts bring us closer together as a human family. And along the way there are a few surprises that illustrate that in an landscape of destruction and suffering, there is also joy and happiness as life begins anew, in many different ways.
The premiere is set for the Saturday, October 7 at 11 a.m. at the South Asian Film Festival in New York City. For more information about the film, visit http://www.typecastingfilms.com/. To get cinema and ticket information, visit http://www.saiff.org/.
