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Daniel Pearl film to premiere in Pakistan Last Updated: Thursday, December 7, 2006 | 4:49 PM ET CBC Arts A film based on the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl opens this week at a film festival in the Pakistani city where he was abducted nearly five years ago. Infinite Justice, by British-Pakistani director Jamil Dehlavi, is the centrepiece of the sixth annual KaraFilm Festival, which begins Thursday in the southern port city of Karachi. "This is the first time a film on Pearl will be screened in Pakistan," festival organizer Hasan Zaidi said. The film --- starring Kevin Collins as an American reporter named Arnold Silverman --- fictionalizes the story of Pearl, a Jewish-American who was kidnapped and beheaded in Karachi in January 2002 while researching a story about Islamic militants for the Wall Street Journal. While they held him hostage, Pearl's abductors made several demands of the U.S. government, including the release of Pakistani terror detainees. In the film, Raza Jaffery plays a terrorism mastermind who kidnaps the Pearl-based character in order to secure the release of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. A British-born Islamic militant, Ahmed Saeed Omar Sheikh, was convicted and sentenced to death for Pearl's murder. Three men accused of being co-conspirators were given life imprisonment. Two other Pearl-related films are in the works. A Mighty Heart, an Angelina Jolie vehicle based on the memoirs of Pearl's wife, Mariane, is currently being shot in India. The film is being produced by Plan B, the production company owned by Brad Pitt, with whom Jolie had a child in May. A film adapted from the book Who Killed Daniel Pearl? by French author Bernard-Henri Levi is also planned, with Josh Lucas to play the lead role. An HBO documentary titled The Journalist and the Jihadi: The Murder of Daniel Pearl premiered in October. The KaraFilm festival will feature 170 movies from 37 countries. Several luminaries, including Bollywood stars Saif Ali Khan and Gulshan Grover and director Mahesh Bhatt, are scheduled to attend. With files from Australian Broadcasting Corporation +++ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
