During our trip to California, we were visiting different companies. We had a meeting with Biz Stone, Founder of Twitter and talked about our mission for women in Afghanistan. He became really excited about what we have done for female students in Af…
The Afghan Citadel Software Company is a women-owned company which works mostly in software development, networking, IT services and trainings. It was launched in 2010 in Herat, Afghanistan and became one of Film Annex's partners in 2012 when we laun…
Congratulations to Cynthia Lawrence-John, Rui Faria and the whole VOLT Magazine crew on Issue #13 making it's way to the newsstands today. This gorgeous oversized magazine, hand folded by the VOLT team over the course of weeks, is a labor of love sho…
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This week I had a meeting with Fereshteh Forough who is managing the Afghan Perspective show. Usually what we are doing with the show is to interview her about her own thoughts and perspectives about what happened in the 60 Minutes CBS each Sunday. W…
It seems like people will start making films in outer space pretty soon. The sets will be built inside spacecrafts, of course. Maybe, there will be a few exterior scenes. There won't be any need for special effects, because actors will fly by default…
Last night I went to see the original art from Zimbabwe to support CAMBA which is a non-profit agency which provides services that connect people with opportunities to enhance their quality of life. I was introduced with wonderful people who did suc…
If you have been to the movies lately, you probably started seeing some previews for Hunger Games: Catching Fire, to be released next November. If Lionsgate is counting on the success of the books and the first movie, it doesn't forget to follow the …
A few days ago, I was invited to attend a round table about the Save Olympic Wrestling movement and how to support the idea to bring back Wrestling into the Olympics. The controversial decision of the IOC to possibly eliminate Wrestling from the Sum…
Film Annex is an online film distribution company that has 300,000 registered users. Of those, 40,000 are registered as professionals of the film industry, and 5,000 are girls from Afghanistan registered also on the Examer Vocational and Education…
NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Navy Captain and Author BuildingArmy of Afghan Proverb Collectors Tampa, FL, May 16, 2013 If someone had told U.S. Navy Captain Edward Zellem in Afghanistan two years ago that his off-duty hobby would turn him i…
