Ever get tired of seeing your favorite Middle Eastern actors relegated to roles that only deal with the War on Terror? Because they surely are.
Kathreen Khavari is a public-health-professional-turned actress who was fed up with Hollywood’s racism, so she decided to do something about it. In this six-minute short — in which Khavari plays 11 different characters — a woman goes through a serious identity crisis wondering if she’s a terrorist after watching an episode of "Homeland."
"This film came to fruition because I was sick of getting sent out for mostly terrorist roles, which my agent at the time believed was all I could play," Khavari told Colorlines in an e-mail.