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Documentary on Ansar in the works

Jim Sofranko from Ulster County, NY has started work on an independent documentary film on Ansar Mahmood. He filmed footage of the candlelight vigil in December in Hudson and has filmed a three hour interview with Ansar in prison at Batavia. He has also interviewed members of the Chatham Peace Initiative. He's a cameraman who has done a lot of work for HBO and has an abiding interest in grassroots activism and both humanitarian and social justice issues.  His main camera man, Toby, is also very liberal. Jim, with a trip with Susan Davies to visit Ansar in his home town in Pakistan has completed the bulk of his footage. In September of 2006 we were contacted my Masood Haque, originally from Pakistan, who speaks Urdu, and who now an emergency room doctor in NY and a filmaker studying at City College in Harlem, NY. He will be worked with Jim and Ansar to tell Ansar’s story in a documentary film for his master’s thesis. He traveled to Pakistan with Jim to interview Ansar and has complete his film which is about 30 minutes long and which focuses on Ansar’s family and Ansar.