An Islamic civil rights advocacy grouping has asked Warner Bros to change the title of its upcoming film Towelhead because "the watchword is usually used in a derogatory manner against people of the Muslim faith or Arab origin".
The studio aforesaid it plans to tie-up by the filmmakers, wHO chose the title to point out racial stereotypes, though it added, "We apologise for any offense that is caused by the title."
Towelhead, directed by Six Feet Under lord Alan Ball and adapted for the screen by Alicia Erian from her novel of the same name, looks at the life of a 13-year-old Lebanese-American lady friend in the early '90s.
A Warner Independent specialty form of address now existence handled by parent studio Warners, it is scheduled to unresolved on September 12 in limited release in New York and Los Angeles.
The Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations aforesaid that because the cognomen is a "racial and religious dim," Warners should consider calling the pic Nothing Is Private, the title under which it debuted at last year's Toronto International Film Festival.
Erian, who is Arab-American, aforementioned that although the title is an ethnic dim, she "selected it to highlight one of the novel's major themes: racism".
She called Cair's�work "admirable," merely said that "the solution ... is not to force the creative person to alter her cultivate, but alternatively to use the occasion of that work as an submission point for meaningful debate and discussion".
Ball said he felt it was important to hold the deed of Erian's novel because "she so effectively dramatises the nuisance inflicted by such linguistic communication, something many people of non-minority stemma never take to face".
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