Featured Films:
Laylatna, Fruits of my Honor, Above The Clouds, Sleight of Hand, Silent Flutter.
VHS Projects organizes and curates songwriting camps for unpublished songwriters and producers in Los Angeles.
Co-founded by Dean Woodson, Andrea Usuelli, and Pamela Charbit. The VHS family aims to build a family of talented creatives and give opportunities to gifted and passionate individuals, getting them all together and making some magic.
Meera filmed behind the scenes footage of the first camp.
Website: www.vhsprojects.com
Meera filming on the right. Picture taken by AlexD.
Co-Founders Andrea, Pamela, and Dean.
Amal’s family gives her away to be a wife to a man three times her age. As she battles between her stunted dreams and her wifely obligations, she forms a connection to her husband… but can she cope?
(Production set for November, 2024)
A man and woman’s wedding night is presumably the night they should be having sex for the first time. This young couple is having trouble..
Budget $1,500
(December, 2017)
Not quite universally common or heard of, an intimate ceremony of Emirati men celebrate the birth of the Prophet Muhammad in song every year, in a practice called “Maalad”.
Budget $2,400
(December, 2017)
Right around the time of Eid Al Adha, word begins to spread regarding Nabil’s daughter, Nada’s, indecent behavior and crime of being involved in a romantic relationship with a man. He has only one choice of action to save the family’s honor.. can he do it?
Budget $15,000
(November, 2017)
Organized by the US Embassy in the UAE. Features Behind The Scenes footage of Meera directing Fruits of My Honor.
Morty takes his work seriously. He enjoys it. Why wouldn’t he? He gets to bring all these dead bodies to life. It feels like he’s playing God. And he’d like to continue to do so.
(Cinematography by Yvgeniy Zhuk, 2016)
In this inverted-fairytale telling, a single mother is warned by the nymph Daphne that her daughter is in great danger. As much as she loves her daughter, she might be doing more harm than good.
The head clown is dead. His eldest daughter has to fill his shoes, instead she halts her act with her little sister to become the Illusionist’s apprentice. The tests seem to be going well, but sometimes ambition can cost you.
Budget $4,400
(February, 2016)
Ibrahim takes his vitamins everyday.. but what if they are not really what his mother says they are? Maybe he will see what his cousin Lamya thinks about it.
This is a story of two young kids contemplating life, the afterlife and the meaning of existence itself.
Budget $0
(March, 2012)
She’s got the desire and talent for a life of music, but there is one problem: what will people say when she has to not only be in the public eye, but have the whole world hear her voice? Luckily, her father knows a little about what caged birds sound like.
Budget $0
(December, 2012)
Yusef is the youngest of his father’s three sons. His father’s favorite and first in line to inherit the company, Yusef’s brothers team up to undertake the only way to prevent that from happening - sending him to prison. But one of them could not live with the act. A modern re-telling of the story of Prophet Yusef.
Budget $0
(April, 2011)
