MPAC TO HONOR 'WHERE IN THE WORLD IS OSAMA BIN LADEN?' WITH 2008 MEDIA AWARD
Purchase Your Tickets Today to the June 1st Gala Dinner in Anaheim, CA

The Muslim Public Affairs Council announced today that it will present one of its 17th annual Media Awards to award-winning documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock for his latest film, "Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?"

Using a good dose of humor and insight, the film features Spurlock's mission to track down Osama Bin Laden. Spurlock travels across the Middle East, South Asia and North Africa and meets everyday people who share their perspectives on terrorism, America, and their hopes for the future.

"We get fed one dominant version of what exists overseas somebody who is burning a flag, or burning an effigy of Tony Blair or George Bush, or they're screaming about how they want death to the West and America, and that's the sum of the whole," says Spurlock, best known for his 2004 documentary "Super Size Me".

"What the film does a great job of doing is putting a face on this overwhelming majority out there, which is not those people, and giving them a voice," he adds. "I don't get to see these people that are in this movie on television here. I don't even read about them in newspapers most of the time."

Spurlock will join fellow honorees film producer Omar Amanat (executive producer of "The Visitor" and "Darfur Now"), and the groundbreaking CW Network sitcom "Aliens in America" at the gala dinner at 6:00 p.m. on June 1st at the Disneyland Resort & Hotel.

Spurlock's journey begins in Egypt, where he begins by trying to find out who Bin Laden is and what drives him. In Israel, the Palestinian territories, Morocco, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Pakistan, Spurlock interviews people on the streets, trying to build up a bigger picture of the world's most wanted man.

"I expected to be met with a lot more hostility, a lot more aggression when we went to these countries and that people were going to be incredibly confrontational and standoffish with us," Spurlock told the BBC. "That simply wasn't the case. People really jumped at the chance to open up their homes, to sit down with us, share their feelings, share their opinions. For me [those people are] the most beautiful part of the movie."

Spurlock was previously honored by MPAC in 2005 for his groundbreaking FX reality show experiment "30 DAYS", which featured an episode where a Christian evangelical man from West Virginia lived with a young Muslim family in Michigan for a month.

Call (213) 383-3443 or click here to purchase your tickets and find out how you can sponsor the Media Awards today!

Tickets for MPAC's 17th Annual Media Awards Gala Dinner at 6:00 p.m. on June 1, 2007 at the Disneyland Resort & Hotel in Anaheim, CA are now available for $150 each or $1500 for a table of 10. Tickets will not be sold at the door.

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