1001 NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENT

1001 NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENT came to fruition in 1997 to help create provocative, compelling, independent projects with a unique voice. The following are a few of the projects that Lisa Haisha and 1001 Nights Entertainment have brought to fruition.

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"A comedy about LA, and Tokyo, hot love and cold fish."

HARPER, a young American model who has become involved with HASHIMOTO, a notorious Japanese gangster, has an affair with the philandering CARLO that ends in Carlo's murder. Later, because of a tell-all book she publishes about the Yakuza, Harper herself becomes Hashimoto's target. What she doesn't realize is that an other-worldly emissary, namely the ghost of Carlo himself, has been sent to assist her and in so doing to purge his own earthly sins. Meanwhile, YOSHIO, the hapless Yakuza assigned to dispose of Harper, has fallen hard for the American. He kidnaps her, spirits her away to a hideout and lavishes sushi and bubble baths on her, while trying to convince her they were made for each other. The whole affair is complicated even further by the intervention of NANA, Harper's mystically-inclined great aunt, who is determined to restore love to Harper's life by any means necessary, including supernatural. This is a wacky, offbeat comedy in the Almodovar vein.

Lisa was written up in the French magazine Jalouse as one of the new filmmakers to watch.

“You can live out of your imagination instead of your memory.”

A dark comedy (with hope). Our main characters, MIA (Jordan Ladd) early 20's, a Video Performance Artist with a vintage fashion style and DYLAN (Gabe Dell Jr.) late 20's, a desperate actor wannabe with a rather flat look with a funny hat style. Mia and Dylan have never met, but they're both lost souls in much the same standard LA way, victims of shattered dreams and broken trust. At a New Year's Eve party of the new millennium, each makes a final stab at turning their lives around. When that fails miserably, they decide independently to end their pain forever and go out with a bang. Only when it's too late do they realize they've found their soul mates in each other. But is it ever too late?

"Plunge" won second place at the International San Diego Film Festival.

A comedic glimpse into Arab-American culture.

A comedy-drama about two young Lebanese-American women in Detroit coming to terms with their sexuality while caught between one culture that suppresses it and another that exploits it.

Currently in Development.

Directed by Lisa Haisha and Luis Colina.
Sponsored by Instant Films - view the film on their website.