Producer Harkeerat Dhillon, at a press conference to be held on November 2, 2006 at the American Film Market in Santa Monica, California, along with global sales distributor Echelon Entertainment and US theatrical distributor International Film Circuit, will announce that the critically acclaimed debut feature film of writer/director Varun Khanna, Beyond Honor, will be an official submission to the 2007 Academy Awards.

International Film Circuit and Echelon Entertainment are renowned for distributing feature films that are daring and emotionally resonant with audiences worldwide. International Film Circuit had its powerful film “Darwin’s Nightmare” nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 2006 Academy Awards. Echelon Studios has been making a name for itself in the area of domestic and international film sales. As a production, domestic distribution and foreign sales company, Echelon Studios handles multiple facets of the entertainment industry. Echelon Studio’s library contains more than 300 first run titles, in a wide variety of genre including comedy, drama, horror, documentary, psychological thriller, family, and animation.

Hailed by the The Daily Variety as a “…landmark film on the indie landscape…”, with the Los Angeles Times calling it “…one of the most controversial films of 2006…” Beyond Honor is a heart-stopping, emotionally resonant film. It is the story of Sahira Abdel-Karim, a young Egyptian-American woman torn between two distinct worlds:  one that is haunted by a harshly violent memory and tightly bound by tradition, the other that we hardly realize exists because we are so much a part of it; contemporary America and its promise of personal freedom for all.  But the American dream finally collapses for the entire Abdel-Karim family in a shocking event of barbaric proportions.

Beyond Honor stars Wadie Andrawis, Jason David Smith, Ruth Osuna aka Mirelly Taylor, Ryan Izay and Laurel Melograno in the lead roles.