American Indie Filmmakers: Thinking Globally and Acting Globally, Too - New York Times by possibly noteworthy at 7:40 am EDT, May 1, 2006
AN Iranian-American director, influenced by the Italian neo-realist movement, the American New Wave of the 1970's and current Iranian cinema, makes a movie, in English and Urdu, about a Pakistani pushcart vendor's daily life in post-9/11 New York.