{"id":176,"date":"2014-11-25T11:44:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T11:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/virusmedia.com.au\/wp\/?p=176"},"modified":"2020-09-09T22:25:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T12:25:37","slug":"jammin-in-the-middle-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/virusmedia.com.au\/wp\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Jammin&#8217; in the Middle E (2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Arab-Australian family is caught between two cultures in this rollicking tale of rap music, fast cars, comedy and finding romance in Sydney&#8217;s little Lebanon. Watch it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Pe7cgSjcq1E&amp;feature=youtu.be\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Naima and Ishak are sister and brother from a conservative, middle class Muslim family in Western Sydney. Ishak is a part time rapper who dreams of being a gangster but fails miserably at every turn while Naima, who usually ends up bailing him out, has the hots for his mate &#8211; the cool dude Rafi.<\/p>\n<p>Ishak has got into hot water again betting his car and a large sum of cash on an illegal street race in which he will race and which he is sure to lose.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/virusmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/jammin_promo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-96\" src=\"http:\/\/virusmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/jammin_promo.gif\" alt=\"jammin_promo\" width=\"200\" height=\"132\"><\/a>Ishak hatches a plot with his sidekicks to steal his own car for the insurance. The plan goes pear-shaped and things look increasingly grim &#8211; especially when the rap battle that Ishak organises to raise some cash is double booked with a traditional Lebanese wedding.<\/p>\n<p>What next for Naima and Ishak?<\/p>\n<p>Employing a longform drama workshop approach in its production, Jammin in the Middle E uses real life stories from the lives of the young amateur cast as the starting point for the screenplay.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/virusmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/jammin_car.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-95\" src=\"http:\/\/virusmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/jammin_car.gif\" alt=\"jammin_car\" width=\"200\" height=\"105\"><\/a>Producer: Enda Murray<\/p>\n<p>Director: Kim Mordaunt<\/p>\n<p>Writer: Howard Jackson<\/p>\n<p>DOP: Joel Peterson<\/p>\n<p>Length: 50 minutes<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/virusmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/jammin_bar.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-93\" src=\"http:\/\/virusmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/jammin_bar.gif\" alt=\"jammin_bar\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\"><\/a><br \/>\nSupported by Australia Council, NSW Ministry for the Arts, Australian Film Commission, NSW Film and Television Office, SBSi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Arab-Australian family is caught between two cultures in this rollicking tale of rap music, fast cars, comedy and finding romance in Sydney&#8217;s little Lebanon. Watch it here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/virusmedia.com.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/virusmedia.com.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/virusmedia.com.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virusmedia.com.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virusmedia.com.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/virusmedia.com.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"http:\/\/virusmedia.com.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virusmedia.com.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/virusmedia.com.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virusmedia.com.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virusmedia.com.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}