Three International Awards for Starmap Champion’s “Coffee & Allah”

Sima Urale’s latest short film Coffee & Allah has received three awards at international film festivals in the last two months. The film was entered in the 6th Vladivostok International Film Festival of Asian Pacific Countries where director Sima Urale received the special “Dior Style Evocation Award”. The New Zealand Film Commission funded film was also entered in the 28th Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival and received the Honolulu Magazine Award for Best Short Film. The film recently won a third award, also for Best Short Film, at the Minbar Muslim Film Festival, in Russia. Actor Joe Folau attended and received the award on behalf of Sima. This follows Coffee & Allah’s world premiere at the prestigious 64th Venice Film Festival in 2007 and screenings in competition which include the San Francisco and Valladolid Film Festivals.