Meet the Filmmakers Behind ‘Ramadan Around the World’

We’ve spent the month of Ramadan enjoying iftar dinners with 10 Muslim families from California to Cairo thanks to the hard work of some talented filmmakers stationed around the globe. Meet a few of those filmmakers who (somewhat reluctantly) pulled themselves out from behind the camera to talk about what shooting this series meant to them. “As humans, no matter what our background is, we always have many more things in common than our differences,” said filmmaker Didem Tali, who filmed Emine Saglam and her family in Istanbul.

Ramadan Around the World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd0CSEi67_s

Thanks to everyone who made “Ramadan Around the World possible. Get to know each filmmaker and the story they shot, below!

Location: Damascus, Syria
Videographer: Mayar Nouri (@mayarnouri)
Story: https://greatbig.is/2Wwa5u2

Location: Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Videographer: Anita Reza Zein (@anitarezazein)
Story: https://greatbig.is/2WEWMYk

Location: Pleasanton, Calfiornia, USA
Videographer: Mimi Schiffman (@mimischiffman)
Story: https://greatbig.is/2KeGQ8i

Location: Bizerte, Tunisia
Videographer: Muhannad Lamin and Sufian Arara (@khayalproductions)
Story: https://greatbig.is/2Kdm3lD

Location: Mumbai, India
Videographer: Kedar Sonigra (@erm0th)
Story: https://greatbig.is/2wut61e

Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Videographer: Didem Tali (@didemontheroad)
Story: https://greatbig.is/2KmFwk3

Location: London, England
Videographer: Sofia Couceiro (@sofia.couceiro) & Jade Scott (@only1jade)
Story: https://greatbig.is/2KfdsPl

Location: Mashhad, Iran
Videographer: Masoud Soheili (@masoudsoheili)
Story: (story coming next week!)

Location: Moscow, Russia
Videographer: Igor Matyupatenko
Story: https://greatbig.is/2XieRZ5

Location: Cairo, Egypt
Videographer: Ibrahim Abdelgalil
Story: https://greatbig.is/2YTv33e

To watch the complete series, visit our website: https://greatbig.is/2MkzDGE

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