We flew from New York City during first 12 days of September, across the
Atlantic to commemorate the 3rd Anniversary of 9/11 with the screening of our
first film "Mistaken Identity" (six part film series on "discovering cultural
and
religous ethnic neighbors").  We are working with over 100 organizations to
screen the film across the UK during Sept/Oct/ Nov - as these months are also
very auspicious with the celebrations of the 400th year of the Guru Granth Sahab
- the holy scriptures of the Sikhs - and the birthday of Guru Nanak, the
founder of Sikhism around the first week of November 2004.

We are seeking to screen the film at the schools and colleges in Scotland,
and wonder whether we could invite you for a screening in Glasgow, if you have
no objection.  The film informs and educate mainstream populations to respect
and tolerate their Sikh neighbors as "A Celebration of Cultural Diversity". 

It was two non-Sikh women who produced the film - five days after 9/11 when
they saw how Sikhs were being racially profiled, verbally abused and physically
assaulted, simply because they wore turbans and beards.

For more information, Visit www.cultural-diversity.co.uk/presentation.htm -
You can review 3-4 min of the film on streaming video ... www.mi-sia.com.
 
Peace. 

Vinanti Sarkar, Director & Producer of MISTAKEN IDENTITY
425 East 51st Street, New York, NY 10022  Tel: 212-759-4568
Email: culturaldiversityfilms@msn.com

Invitation to be part of "A Celebration of Cultural Diversity"
in Glasgow, Scotland (Date to be announced)

Good morning from New York City (and our office in Birmingham, UK).  We are
working with over 100 organizations in the UK - after our successful screening
of "MISTAKEN IDENTITY" - "A Celebration of Cultural Diversity" at Channel 4
studios in London at the invitation of the British Women in Film & TV on 19
April 2004.  The film was produced by two non-Sikh women, a young American and a
New York filmmaker from India, who make dramatic culturally diversified films
to inform and educate, as there is too much ignorance and fear about religion
and life-styles in the new millennium.

Our organizers feel, if there is a terrorist attack in Britain, it may result
in civil unrest.  The film (first part in a film series) shows 22-year old
Host Amanda Gesine (who conceived the idea of the film) discovering her Sikh
neighbors after 9/11.    Never having had a Sikh friend in school or college,
she
saw how Sikhs were racially profiled, verbally abused and physically
assaulted simply because they wore turbans and beards and mistaken for
terrorists. 

A white American girl, sheltered like so much of society, behind a white
picket fence, she immediately saw the light at the end of the tunnel and sought
to
break new grounds in bringing stories of cultural diversity to mainstream
populations, because she felt they  are more relevant now than ever.  The film
demystifies the enigma of Sikhs (first ethnic group and part of a film series)
and shares the hopes and desires of people from all walks of life who seek to
close ranks against bigotry and hate, and take a united stand against terrorism.

This film focuses directly on the concerns of diversity in order to educate
people about all those new strange immigrants - and asks for tolerance, respect
and understanding of next door neighbors.

Six months after its release, the film won three first prize awards at
American Film Festivals, so the filmmakers declared the "global media event." 
Screenings are being scheduled across the USA (over 22 States have been
completed);
Canada (Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and Ottawa), and now the film is moving
across the Atlantic ... to United Kingdom.  Invitations for screening are
being organized in Holland, Belgium, France, Germany, Africa, India to Australia
and New Zealand .

In the month of June and July, the film had successful screenings at the 2004
Parliament of the Council of World Religions (7-13 July) in Barcelona, Spain,
attended by 8,000 people worldwide.  It is being screened at the first-ever
Hollywood Spiritual & Film Festival in Los Angeles (ending 21 September 2004).

We are arranging screenings in schools, libraries, museums and the University
halls of Cambridge, Coventry, Oxford, Birmingham, etc., as we move from
London to Cardiff (Wales), Glasgow (Scotland) to Belfast (Ireland).

Let's share in the effort of distancing ignorance and fear of our fellow
neighbors ...

For more information, Visit www.cultural-diversity.co.uk/presentation.htm -
You can review 3-4 min of the film on streaming video ... www.mi-sia.com
produced by a young Sikh school boy of 16.
 
Sincerely,
 
  
Ms Nims Sarkar, Managing Director, Celebrating Cultural Diversity (CCD)
59 Vicarage Road, Harborne, Birmingham B17 0SR Tel: 0121-427-5991 Email:
nimsarkar@aol.com