Host a Screening of The Glass House
MOVIE + FRIENDS + DOING GOOD = NOROUZ-E-OMID
This Spring, join Fictionville Studio and Omid-e-Mehr in Norouz-e-Omid (New Year of Hope), an effort to share a moving documentary and raise funds for the important work of an at-risk girls center in Tehran, Iran. Host a screening, small or large, and become a part of this international initiative.
Our goal is to raise $100,000.00 for Omid e Mehr with a hundred community screenings.
It’s easy to host a screening:
1 Buy the Community Screening Kit, available here
2 Pick a place to screen the film: your home, school auditorium, yoga center, local cafe, place of worship, local library
3 Invite your friends and family
4 Watch the film
5 Start a discussion about how the film impacted you and encourage your guests to be make a contribution
6 Submit funds raised and relish in your contribution to improving the lives of youth
It doesn’t matter if you have 5 people and raise $25 or have 100 people and raise thousands. What matters is that you are a part of this movement for change rippling across communities in every corner of the world.
In October 2009, we raised over $60,000 across an 11‐city screening tour. With your active participation, we are confident that we will raise even more in March 2010.
If you are interested in hosting a screening of the film:
We are here to make this fun, engaging, and smooth. Please feel free to ask questions or seek advice on how to make your screening the best it can be.
For all inquiries, contact Negin Salmasi at norouz@fictionvillestudio.com.
THE GLASS HOUSE:
Directed by Hamid Rahmanian, Produced by Melissa Hibbard
The fringes of Iranian society can be a lonely place, especially if you are a teenage girl with few resources to fall back on. The Glass House follows four girls striving to pull themselves out of the margins by attending a one-of-kind rehabilitation center in uptown Tehran. Forget about the Iran that you’ve seen before. With a virtually invisible camera, the girls of The Glass House take us on a never-before-seen tour of the underclass of Iran with their brave and defiant stories: Samira struggles to overcome forced drug addiction; Mitra harnesses abandonment into her creative writing; Sussan teeters on a dangerous ledge after years of sexual abuse; and Nazila burgeons out of her hatred with her blazing rap music. This groundbreaking documentary reflects a side of Iran few have access to or paid attention to: a society lost to its traditions with nothing meaningful to replace them and a group of courageous women working to instill a sense of empowerment and hope into the minds and lives of otherwise discarded teenage girls.
About the Omid-e-Mehr Center
Omid e Mehr was established in 2004 in Iran to strengthen the social, emotional, and economic competencies of disadvantaged young women (aged from 15 to 25), and provide them with a sense of self-worth and with the opportunities to experience a full range of life options through self-empowerment, education and training. Omid's clients have typically either been put into care from an early age, or run away from abusive homes, or live in extreme poverty. They often suffer from severe mental health and emotional difficulties, mostly stemming from their experiences of neglect, physical and sexual abuse, and exposure to drugs and violence. Despite their past difficulties, and the obstacles still facing them, Omid's young clients have dreams. They yearn to participate in life, and to make meaningful contributions to the world around them. Omid's holistic approach provides these young clients with the opportunities to realize such dreams. They are offered the tools, structure and support to help them succeed. And, above all, they are offered the chance to be heard. The cornerstones of this approach are self-empowerment, education and training, supplemented by effective work placement, counseling and assistance. To learn more about Omid e Mehr click, visit omid-e-mehr.org
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