Mo & Me Wins in L.A. And Stirs Paris En Route To N.Y.

Directed by Roger Mills (“Himalaya”, “Around the World in 80 Days”) and narrated by Salim Amin, Mo & Me received the International Film Award for Best Documentary at the 2006 NYIIFV Festival in Los Angeles, last month.

The 95-minute feature also received much favorable comment at the recent European Independent Film Festival in Paris; and there is growing interest in its presentation next month in New York at which Harry Belafonte and other friends of Mohamed Amin are expected.

Mo & Me depicts Amin’s tenacious and unflinching chronicling of Africa’s passage through the twentieth century in a career that marked him as a photographer and cameraman of the highest caliber.

His courage and drive in the face of extreme adversity are also shown as he survives incarceration, torture and, later, amputation in his unrelenting quest to give voice to the voiceless.

Commenting on the positive reaction to his debut documentary, Salim Amin said:

“My team at Camerapix and I are deeply grateful to all those who have seen and supported Mo & Me. In his life, as in his death, my father was determined to show the world things that some were afraid to see and others wished they could ignore.”

“Ultimately, by providing the first images of those apocalyptic scenes in Ethiopia, Mohamed Amin’s cameras made the world examine its conscience and inspired one of the greatest acts of collective compassion in history.”