Filmmaker and Pittsford resident Mara Ahmed has always been fascinated with the differences between people, but never in the divisive sense. Instead, through her filmmaking, she has been working actively...

“There is a perception out there then when somebody says ‘Muslims’ you immediately imagine somebody with a machine gun coming to your house or something to blow you away,” Sehi...

Take a journey into the much talked about but little known American community in Mara Ahmed’s personal documentary that focuses on the Pakistani American community in Rochester. Immediately following the...

The beginning of the film examines many of the images Ahmed sees as examples of the media depicting Muslims as one homogenous group of men with rifles parading through the...