On this edition of The Halal Gap, we bring you a very special episode: the panel discussion from our 2nd annual ‘Opening Credits’ event on October 13th, 2023. For the 2nd year in a row, the Mosquers Film Festival was kicked off with ‘Opening Credits’, an event where 300 Muslim creatives and representatives from organizations that seek to platform them came together. The panel, hosted by Sikandar Atiq, features Hoda Ali, Community Impact Coordinator at Toronto International Film Festival, ‘Mustache’ director and writer, Imran J. Khan, Kajsa Erickson, Manager of Telefilm Canada’s Talent Fund, and Emmy award-winning documentary producer, Lisa Valencia-Svensson.
Opening Credits would not have been possible without the support of our partners at Inspirit Foundation and Warner Brothers Discovery Access.
Co-Hosts: Sikandar Atiq @satiq31 and Sofia Alani @bambzz24
Panelists: Hoda Ali @thatgirlhoda, Kajsa Erickson @telefilm_canada, Lisa Valencia-Svensson, Imran J. Khan @imranjkhan
Producer: Asif Quraishi @sifq
Videographer: Yousuf Iqbal @yi_studios
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On this edition of The Halal Gap, we bring you a very special episode: the panel discussion from our 2nd annual ‘Opening Credits’ event on October 13th, 2023. For the 2nd year in a row, the Mosquers Film Festival was kicked off with ‘Opening Credits’, an event where 300 Muslim creatives and representatives from organizations that seek to platform them came together. The panel, hosted by Sikandar Atiq, features Hoda Ali, Community Impact Coordinator at Toronto International Film Festival, ‘Mustache’ director and writer, Imran J. Khan, Kajsa Erickson, Manager of Telefilm Canada’s Talent Fund, and Emmy award-winning documentary producer, Lisa Valencia-Svensson.
Opening Credits would not have been possible without the support of our partners at Inspirit Foundation and Warner Brothers Discovery Access.
Co-Hosts: Sikandar Atiq @satiq31 and Sofia Alani @bambzz24
Panelists: Hoda Ali @thatgirlhoda, Kajsa Erickson @telefilm_canada, Lisa Valencia-Svensson, Imran J. Khan @imranjkhan
Producer: Asif Quraishi @sifq
Videographer: Yousuf Iqbal @yi_studios
Follow our new Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/thehalal_gap. The Halal Gap is a Mosquers Film Festival production. Keep up to date with the Mosquers:
https://www.themosquers.com
https://www.instagram.com/mosquersfilmfest/
https://www.tiktok.com/@mosquersfilmfest?
https://twitter.com/themosquers
https://www.facebook.com/mosquersfilmfest/
Imran J. Khan joins us from LA! Imran talks to Sikandar and Sofia about his new feature film “Mustache,” a story about a 13 year old Pakistani American boy who struggles to accept himself after transferring from Islamic school to public school in the late 1990’s. Imran talks about authentically representing Muslims and tells us why he thought “Mustache” would never get made. Plus, he takes us behind the curtain on casting and directing young Brown actors, production design, and much, much, more!
Co-Hosts: Sikandar Atiq @satiq31 and Sofia Alani @bambzz24
Guest: Imran J. Khan @imranjkhan
Producer & YouTube Thumbnail: Asif Quraishi @sifq
Sound Editor: Vikram Chouhan @whitenoisetunes
Tile Art: Narmeen Saiyed @naarmz and Salman Mahmood @mr.salmanmahmood
The Mosquers return October 13-14, 2023! Submit your short film here: https://www.themosquers.com/submit.
Join our new Discord community for Muslim creatives here: https://discord.gg/fTJZxZfjUA.
Follow our new Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/thehalal_gap. The Halal Gap is a Mosquers Film Festival production. Keep up to date with the Mosquers:
https://www.themosquers.com
https://www.instagram.com/mosquersfilmfest/
https://www.tiktok.com/@mosquersfilmfest?
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The Halal Gap
On this edition of The Halal Gap, we bring you a very special episode: the panel discussion from our 2nd annual ‘Opening Credits’ event on October 13th, 2023. For the 2nd year in a row, the Mosquers Film Festival was kicked off with ‘Opening Credits’, an event where 300 Muslim creatives and representatives from organizations that seek to platform them came together. The panel, hosted by Sikandar Atiq, features Hoda Ali, Community Impact Coordinator at Toronto International Film Festival, ‘Mustache’ director and writer, Imran J. Khan, Kajsa Erickson, Manager of Telefilm Canada’s Talent Fund, and Emmy award-winning documentary producer, Lisa Valencia-Svensson.
Opening Credits would not have been possible without the support of our partners at Inspirit Foundation and Warner Brothers Discovery Access.
Co-Hosts: Sikandar Atiq @satiq31 and Sofia Alani @bambzz24
Panelists: Hoda Ali @thatgirlhoda, Kajsa Erickson @telefilm_canada, Lisa Valencia-Svensson, Imran J. Khan @imranjkhan
Producer: Asif Quraishi @sifq
Videographer: Yousuf Iqbal @yi_studios
Follow our new Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/thehalal_gap. The Halal Gap is a Mosquers Film Festival production. Keep up to date with the Mosquers:
https://www.themosquers.com
https://www.instagram.com/mosquersfilmfest/
https://www.tiktok.com/@mosquersfilmfest?
https://twitter.com/themosquers
https://www.facebook.com/mosquersfilmfest/
