“MISTAKEN IDENTITY: A 9/11 Story” shows how 21-years old Amanda Gesine from Greenwich, CT, discovers her Sikh neighbors after the Attack on America since September 11, 2001. She never had a Sikh friend in her private school or college. And days later she read how all ages of Sikh American men, women and children were being racially profiled, verbally abused and physically attacked, shot and killed, simply because they wore turbans and beards. She was horrified that Americans were so naive, mistaking Sikh Americans for terrorists because they resembled Bin La Din.
So Amanda began visiting schools, homes and business houses to discover for herself "Who are Sikhs ? What is Sikhism ? and What Sikh Americans have contributed to the American economy since they arrived in the USA in the 1880s.
Within six months of its official release, the film won 3 first prize awards