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Private preview showings of Bam 6.6 have resulted in numerous comments, testimonials and feedback from people that have seen the film. Many responses were videotaped and available on a Testimonial Trailer DVD. Written testimonials are available upon request.
Viewers who provided testimonials included students and professors at UCLA and USC, filmmakers and artists, movie critics and members of Iranian-American organizations.
This page contains reviews and testimonials written by people who have attended the special screening of BAM 6.6 .
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"The film was POWERFUL and the community sat silent and numb as the credits ran on the screen. Everyone stayed for a discussion as we pulled our chairs in a circle. The crowd was smaller than usual as we were dealing with a winter ice storm. I told the group of your generosity in permitting us to screen the film though we did not have the copyright but you had personally understood our efforts to stop a war against Iran and had agreed.
The humanity of the Iranians clearly came through and the tragedy of the earthquake. The filming is extraordinary, light, color, action made being there felt real. And the tragedy of all the victims.
The discussion moved then to how the United States did not follow through in giving the aid to Iran after the Quake that they promised to so we dealt with 'the politics of the US Empire. So what more can I say, its all there for one to face, This Wednesday we will have a community with our congressman in Hadley to Stop A War Against Iran. Michael Klare will speak as well as Ira Helfand from PSR and a former Marine. I will try to forward to you the poster. We will try to get community groups to watch the DVD."
- Frances Crowe,
Northampton Community for Peace
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"Too few of us have had the privilege and good fortune to enjoy Iranian hospitality in recent years. FOR's five delegations over the past two years have each felt the warmth and care of the culture and people celebrated in your touching documentary of the aftermath of the 2003 earthquake in Bam, Iran. Even in the face of a much more modest accident last December, the half dozen of our group injured in a bus accident received similar quick, professional and personal care in an Iranian hospital at no cost and with great compassion and respect. As Adele Freedman, her fiance and parents experienced, everywhere we went we were welcomed warmly and richly rewarded for our decision to reach out to Iranians in friendship and hope for a different future. Your film could help many others to make the same decision. I hope it is widely seen. The only shame here is that it takes a catastrophe of the magniture of the Bam earthquake to bring peoples more directly into compassionate service to one another."
"Peace"
- Mark Johnson, Executive Director, The Fellowship of Reconciliation
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"Yesterday I was able to find time to go on your website and roam around. I'm impressed and grateful that you and your film, BAM 6.6 have received as much exposure and acceptance that it has. Being shown at the National Cathedral in Washington with one of the 1979 hostages in the audience was a wonderful step in the right direction toward changing attitudes toward Iran that have been feed by propaganda."
"You have made an extraordinary film to be very proud of! I was stunned by BAM 6.6!! I watched it and then immediately watched it again. And I want everybody I know to watch it. So when I get back from Iran I will have a party to watch the film. I don't think I can express it any better than you did "complex yet subtle web of interactions" shown with great clarity and sensitivity. And all the accolades I have read are right on. I don't think I can add anything any better."
"The editor did a marvelous job of putting together the images to tell the story you wanted to tell. It is not easy to put together such a mixture of horror, compassion, and ultimately recognition that we are all one mass of humanity. And that most people's behavior reveals that fact. A recognition that brings us to the doorstep of hope for better relations between all people regardless of religion, ethnicity or nationality; and particularly for America and Iran at this point in time. It is not people that is the problem, it is the governments... everywhere."
- Penny Harris
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Click here to read about Director Jahangir Golestan-Parast on "Prudential People" |
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Click here to read about Bam 6.6 on |
Journal of Longevity (by Ryan Gorman) |
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February 15, 2007 |
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Filmmaker uses catastrophe to build bridges |
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LAGUNA HILLS Jahangir Golestan-Parast still remembers how decades ago on a couple of occasions his principal shone the flashlight inside a dark movie theater and hauled him and his friends back to school.
The boys had skipped math classes in their native Isfahan, Iran, and snuck away to the local cinema, which showed classic American films with heroes like John Wayne and Charles Bronson, dubbed in Farsi.
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February 20, 2008 |
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Click here to read about Bam 6.6 on |
AfterDowningStreet.org |
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March 2008 |
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Documentary “Bam 6.6” Premieres In Washington, DC |
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