This project is the proud recipient of a NYFA Opportunity Grant and the support of Mira Nair’s Salaam Baalak Trust and The Asia Society, New York.

An adolescent Muslim boy unexpectedly befriends a Hindu girl in 2008 terrorist-era Mumbai, their liaison confronts religious and territorial tensions and the innocence of childhood is fraught with the facts of modern-day life in this Romeo and Juliet where peace and tolerance is carried forth by the young.  

Currently in development, this film will be presented as a vehicle for peace and understanding as part of U.C. Berkeley South Asia Institute educational programs for K-14 students and all communities confronting Islamophobia.    

Isabel edits the flaming, rhythmic three-part film, FIREHOUSE DETROIT 9/11 in collaboration with artist and photographer Greg Holm of the Detroit-based collective 2:1 who turns his camera on the revitalization of a Detroit firehouse as a symbol of change.    

Featuring live performances by the Detroit Children’s Choir, members of the Detroit Firefighter’s Honor Guard, and the Detroit Art Institute theater’s own historic pipe organ, the film, Firehouse 9/11 intones memories of a ghostly firefighter as he journeys through the darkness of the firehouse basement towards the light of a revitalized urban landscape.