"Too few of us have had the privilege and good fortune to enjoy Iranian hospitality in recent years. FOR's five delegations over the past two years have each felt the warmth and care of the culture and people celebrated in your touching documentary of the aftermath of the 2003 earthquake in Bam, Iran.  Even in the face of a much more modest accident last December, the half dozen of our group injured in a bus accident received similar quick, professional and personal care in an Iranian hospital at no cost and with great compassion and respect. As Adele Freedman, her fiance and parents experienced, everywhere we went we were welcomed warmly and richly rewarded for our decision to reach out to Iranians in friendship and hope for a different future. Your film could help many others to make the same decision. I hope it is widely seen. The only shame here is that it takes a catastrophe of the magniture of the Bam earthquake to bring peoples more directly into compassionate service to one another."

"Peace"

- Mark Johnson, Executive Director, The Fellowship of Reconciliation

" I had the pleasure of attending the film-screening of BAM 6.6 at Pace University, in NYC, on March 6th, 2008.  The film moved me, and many of the 50-60 students in attendance, to tears.  Many of us in the audience were touched by the re-telling of the tragic losses suffered by the Iranian people and the young American couple so in love on that fateful day of the earthquake.  I am an American woman who is familiar with the warm and hospitable spirit of the Iranian people, and your film brings out this reality, but there is another message that is subtly, but profoundly captured in BAM 6.6.

It is the message that peace and brotherhood is the essential link between the American people and the Iranian people, and between all human beings.  Most of us living here in the U.S. never heard of the compassion and good-will of the American Red Cross workers who joined hand-in-hand with the Iranian Red Crescent rescuers because the political leaders in Washington block that reality.  As a political activist involved in the United States peace movement, I have held up many placards and signs against bombing and threatening Iran, and calling for dialogue and peaceful relations between our two governments.  What I witnessed is that your beautiful and honest film has an impact far greater than my single anti-war placard, because you have captured the true culture and basis of unity between our two peoples, that transends the negative portrayal of the Iranian nation.  This film should be shown throughout all of the colleges, universities and even high schools of this country, because its message of love, sacrifice and brotherhood cannot be denied.

I have already shared the DVD with family, friends and neighbors.  BAM 6.6 is powerful! I wish you and your film great success, and hope it is distributed far and wide and watched by many Americans."

-Mrs. Eleanor Ommani, Retired Educator in NYC