Sundance

The NFB and Esperamos (Groupe Fair-Play) will world premiere Sophie Deraspe’s THE AMINA PROFILE at the Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Documentary Competition.

SYNOPSIS - FILM

Amina Arraf, a pretty Syrian-American revolutionary who’s having an online affair with Montrealer Sandra Bagaria, launches the provocatively named blog A Gay Girl in Damascus. As the Syrian uprising gains momentum, the blog attracts a huge following. But it’s Amina’s subsequent abduction that sparks an international outcry to free her.

Telling a detective story that involves various intelligence agencies and global media empires, the film travels from San Francisco and Washington to Istanbul, Tel Aviv and Beirut to meet the key players in this quest to reveal the real Amina. This thoroughly modern tale of technology, love and

news-as-spectacle questions the ways in which people connect in today’s virtual world.

The Amina Profile is part love story, part international thriller, and a gripping chronicle of an unprecedented media and sociological hoax.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Sophie Deraspe fell into cinema through visual arts and literature. As both a director and a cinematographer, she worked mostly in documentary before directing her realism-bending first feature length film Missing Victor Pellerin (2006). Followed by critical acclaim and projections throughout the world, Sophie's realistic work continued with her second feature film Vital Signs (2009), which Premiered in Rotterdam and won 15 prizes around the world. Sophie just finished her third feature film The Wolves.