Slingshot Hip Hop
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Concordia University (Montreal)
Monday March 9, 2009
Screening begins 19h30
Venue: Room H-110, 1455 de maisonneuve
Palestinian hip-hop artist Abeer will join us for a virtual Q&A after the screening which is co-sponsored by Tadamon! Montreal and is part of Israel Apartheid Week Montreal.
Read an interview with Director Jackie Salloum in Concordia's The Link.
Slingshot Hip Hop
Slingshot Hip Hop braids together the stories of young Palestinians living in the West Bank, Gaza and inside Israel.
Jackie Salloum / USA, Palestine / 2008 / 90 min / Arabic with English subtitles
Slingshot Hip Hop braids together the stories of young Palestinians living in the West Bank, Gaza and inside Israel as they discover Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and poverty. From internal checkpoints and Separation Walls to gender norms and generational differences, this is the story of young people crossing the borders that separate them.
Trailer
Credits
Director/Producer/Editor
Jackie Reem Salloum is a New York based artist and filmmaker. Drawing on her Palestinian and Syrian roots, her pop-infused work focuses on challenging the stereotypes of Arabs in the media. She has directed several shorts exploring this issue, including Planet of the Arabs, which received the International Editing Award at the 2005 CinemaTexas Film Festival and was an official selection in that year’s Sundance Film Festival. After receiving her MFA from New York University, Salloum began directing her first feature length documentary Slingshot Hip Hop. Five years in the making it made it’s premiere at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival-Documentary Competition. Salloum’s work is also the basis of a youth education program on Palestine/Israel, and she frequently speaks at universities and conferences internationally.
Producer
Rumzi Araj, a Palestinian-American, has worked with Salloum on many of her art and film projects and was an Associate Producer on the short film Planet of the Arabs, a 2005 Sundance selection. He is currently completing his law degree while pursuing his interest in film production.
Producer/Editor/Visual Effects Supervisor
Waleed Zaiter is an Arab-American multimedia artist born in Beirut,Lebanon. Growing up in the United States, he began his career as a street artist in Boston. He currently resides in NYC where he freelances as an animator. His work can be found on-line at www.freehabib.com
Awards & Festivals
SLINGSHOT HIP HOP recently won:
“Audience Award” at the Beirut International Film festival, Lebanon
“Best Director” at the Beirut International Film festival, Lebanon
“The Festival des Libertés Award” at the Festival des Libertés festival in Brussels, Belgium
“Audience Award” at the Arabian Sights Film Festival-presented by the Washington,
DC International Film Festival
Top 3 Finalist for the IDFA- “DOC U” Competition
Nominated for the Sundance Film Festival 2008 – “Documentary Competition”
Film site & Reviews
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