A successful year

After over a year on the film festival circuit we have finished up with as semi-finalist selection at the Utah Film Festival.


Next steps include burning DVDs and making the film available for streming or online viewing.

Utah Film Awards and Festival

The prestigious Utah Film Festival selected Amereki - Escape From Dubai as a semi-finalist in this year's festival. Very exciting news.

ORION International Film Festival

The ORION International Film Festival in Australia has recognized our film as a semi-finalist for Best Documentary Feature Film for 2018!

Next Level International Film Festival Awards 2018

The Next Level International Film Festival has awarded our film as the 2nd runner up Best Documentary Film for 2018!

Reel East Texas Film Festival - Official Selection

Super excited to be an official selection of the Reel East Film Festival in the great state of Texas. The festival will be held November 15 -18 in Kilgore, Texas.Hope to see you there!

Royal Starr Film Festival Official Selection

We are thrilled to be included in the Royal Starr Film Festival in Royal Oak Michigan, just outside of Detroit! October 11-14.
The Royal Starr Arts Institute is the leading Metro Detroit entity to which the public and the artistic community turn for all aspects of media film arts, including the best in related technologies.

Royal Starr Film Festival

Bristol Independent Film Festival

We are thrilled to be included in the Bristol Independent Film Festival!
The fastest growing and one of the most popular film festivals in the United Kingdom. We strive to bring filmmakers from all over the world under one setting.

Real to Reel International Film Festival

Located in the heart of North Carolina between Asheville and Charlotte, Cleveland County is right in the middle of it all. The mission of the Real to Reel International Film Festival is to offer a forum for independent film, video and multi-media artists from around the world to showcase their talents and expose the works of these artists to our region.

RIFFA - Regina International Film Festival & Awards

We are excited to announce Amereki Kum, Escape From Dubai has been selected for its Canadian Premiere by The Regina International Film Festival! The festival and awards will take place in Regina Saskatchewan August 14 -18. We hope to see you there!

RIFFA will showcase 20 World premieres, 55 Canadian premieres and 50 Saskatchewan premieres with 25 of this year's selections helmed by female directors. Feature-length films include 17 International, five Canadian, 11 International documentaries and 14 Canadian documentaries.

Regina International Film Festival

RIFFA Documentaries Page

Manifesto Film Festival

We just returned from the Manifesto Film Festival in Amsterdam. It was by all accounts a huge success. This was the first opportunity many friends and family had to view the film and ask questions.What a great night. Kudos to the Manifesto Film Festival organizers!

A Positive

I spoke with Film Critic, Nate Brown by phone for about 30 minutes prior to the Adrian Film Festival in Adrian Michigan. This was just after after he watched our film.

After visiting his website it seemed clear that Nate views films with a critical eye and assesses with honesty. He actually criticizes... as critics tend to do. Nate grades every film he reviews and hands out B's and C's with an occasional A. I knew we were going to get an honest review but not sure if we'd get a good one. He gave us an A.

Here's a small excerpt:

"Johanning doesn’t waste time setting up the narrative structure and does so like a seasoned veteran. We get hooked immediately, after we find out that VanDerZalm, in order to avoid life imprisonment for crimes he did not commit, comes up with a plan to stash himself inside a small wooden crate and travel eight hours via plane, out of Dubai, to his brother's house in Amsterdam. He faced every obstacle in the book, (pressurization, oxygen levels, water etc) and still lived to tell the tale.

Talk about a story...

The entire review can be read here: 

Review - Amereki Kum, Escape From Dubai

MAY Festival Screenings

Amereki Kum, Escape From Dubai has been selected in several festivals over the past 6 months or so. Upcoming screenings this May include the Adrian International Film Festival in Adrian Michigan just outside of Detroit, The Romford Film Festival in London as well as the Manifesto Film Festival in Amsterdam.

May 18 - Adrian International Film Festival, Adrian MI
Adrian Film Festival

May 25 - Romford Film Festival, London

May 28 - Manifesto Film Festival, Amsterdam w/ Q&A

Adrian International Film Festival

TRAILER Amereki Kum, Escape From Dubai

WTMJ interview

In June I was interviewed by Eric Bilstad on WTMJ Radio in Milwaukee. Take a listen.
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Around International Film awards Amereki Kum, Escape From Dubai

Amereki Kum, Escape From Dubai has been recognized by Around International Film Festival in Amsterdam. The Festival recognizes film with monthly awards and screens the best of annually. What this means is that we may have a screening in Amsterdam in summer of 2018.