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Omar Amanat |
Since his electronic brokerage company Tradescape was sold to E*Trade in 2002, Omar Amanat has turned his energies to the production of feature films. Mr. Amanat is the executive producer of five films that will be released over the course of the next year. Here is a synopsis of each of those features.
The Devil Came on Horseback
Break Thru Films
Based on a book by U.S. Marine turned activist Brian Steidle, The Devil Came on Horseback asks a troubling question about the genocide in Darfur, Sudan: will Western awareness of the problem actually motivate change? Called “brutal, urgent, devastating” by The New York Times, The Devil Came on Horseback is one of the most powerful and horrifying documentaries of our time.
The Visitor
Groundswell Productions
The Visitor, writer-director Thomas McCarthy’s follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut film The Station Agent, was one of the most anticipated films of the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. The film stars Richard Jenkins as a Connecticut economics professor who discovers that an undocumented immigrant couple has been living in his seldom-used Manhattan apartment. The Visitor is a timely and humane examination of the xenophobia at the heart of both America’s war on terror and its immigration policies.
Darfur Now
Mandalay Independent Pictures
Featuring Don Cheadle and George Clooney, Darfur Now is a documentary of the humanitarian crisis seen through the eyes of six people who are trying to make a difference. Cheadle is the most recognizable of the group, which also includes a young UCLA student, the leader of a refugee camp, an Ecuadorian activist, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Hague, and a mother who became an armed rebel after government forces killed her three-month-old son.
Smart People
Grosvenor Park Productions
Smart People, the first feature film from commercial director Noam Murro, stars Dennis Quaid as a widowed university professor navigating a new love with a former student (Sarah Jessica Parker) and a visit from his brother (Thomas Haden Church) while trying to reconnect with his alienated son and daughter (Ashton Holmes and Ellen Page).
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Arclight Films
Based a novel by Michael Chabon (Wonder Boys) with screenplay and direction by Rawson Marshall Thurber (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story), The Mysteries of Pittsburgh tells the story of Art Bechstein (Jon Foster), a University of Pittsburgh student who ends up in a love triangle during his first summer after graduation. The film stars Sienna Miller, Mena Suvari, Peter Sarsgaard and Nick Nolte.
For more information, please visit www.OmarAmanat.com.
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