"MISTAKEN IDENTITY:A 9/11 Story" is a docudrama DVD story of how 21-year-old Amanda Gesine discovers her Sikh American neighbors after 9/11. Within 6 months of its release, the film won three first prize awards for best documentary, best director and best young producer !!!

Amanda herself never had a Sikh friend in her private school or college, but she became fascinated with her classes on "cultural diveristy in America" at Georgetown University in Washington DC.

After 9/11, Amanda became involved in working as the anchor/reporter for Global Cultural Diversity Films (GCDF) Inc. a boutique film production company in New York. She dared to attend thousands of New Yorkers in search of missing loved ones at Union Square three days later. She encountered a young Sikh girl (born and bred in America) walking fearlessly in the crowds with her two young Sikh turbaned escorts.

Although Amanda herself never had a Sikhs friend in private schools and college in Greenwich, CT, they explained to her how Sikh Americans of all ages: young children, men and women were being racially profiled, verbally abused and physically attacked, shot and killed, simply because they wore turbans and beards for religious reasons. Second-and third generation Sikhs always felt they were Americans and could not understand why their ethnic immigrant group were being mistaken for terrorists and relatives of Bin Lah Din !

It became young Amanda's mission in the film to show mainstream America who are Sikhs, what is Sikhism and how the Sikh immigrants arrived in 1880s and have contributed to the economy of the country.

MISTAKEN IDENTITY is the story of Amanda discovering her Sikh neighbors as she went to schools, colleges, business offices and the gurdwara where the Sikh religion opens its doors to anyone and everyone ...

The film was directed and produced by Vinanti Sarkar Castellarin and a complete non-Sikh team of filmmakers who felt this story needed to be told, exclusively for family audiences and the younger generation.

The DVD: "MISTAKEN IDENTITY ... celebrates cultural diversity in America and can be ordered as is a one hour film and/or 35 min classroom course with an instructional book that is available for teachers to conduct diversity classes, including film, anthropology, faith-based comparative world religions courses.