The DR. RAANA AKBAR MEMORIAL LECTURE SERIES, the CATHOLIC DIOCESE of SAGINAW
and SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY invite you to a Unity Productions Foundation (UPF) Film Premiere:
Narrated by OscarAcademy Award Winning Actor Jeremy Irons
UPF Executive Producers Alex Kronemer & Michael Wolfe
The legacy of Saint Francis of Assisi and the Sultan of Egypt is one of the great, lost stories from history. A true tale of long ago East-West conflict, it speaks with urgency to our present. Two men of faith, one an itinerant Christian preacher and the other a ruler of a Muslim empire, defied a century of war, distrust, and insidious propaganda to forge mutual respect and common ground for peace.
Date: Thursday Sept 28, 2017, at 6 pm
Tickets are $4 each and may be purchased at Temple Theater box office or online at www.templetheatre.com/event/the-sultan-and-the-saint.
Screen time is one hour. Please join us to learn and dialogue for peace.
Bishop Jospeh Cistone, SVSU President Donald Bachand, and UPF President Michael Wolfe, will address the audience.
Proceeds will benefit local organization, East Side Soup Kitchen.
Producer UPF is a California-based non-profit foundation. Its mission is to counter bigotry and create peace through the media. Since it's inception UPF has produced nine films that have been broadcasted nationally, on PBS, and internationally. Visit www.upf.tv for more.
For more information, please contact raanaakbar.memorial@gmail.com or call 551-998-1221