Palestinian Film Festival | Territories
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Cinema Politica London
Friday January 30, 2009
Screening begins 23h00
Venue: Wemple Lounge | Kings University College | 266 Epworth Ave.
Passionate and poignant, the Palestinian Film Festival is a celebration of Palestinian cinema and culture.
Presented by Cinema Politica London | Centre for Social Concern - Social Justice and Peace Club King's University College.
This festival is co-sponsored by People for Peace.
The bombings in Gaza are over just in time for Obama to become the new US president, but that doesn't mean important and powerful media on Palestine/Israel isn't still needed.
Please join us for first film festival of the Winter 2009 Cinema Politica London programmer. It will be a night of powerful moving images that show the complexities of the conflict and occupation in the Middle East - from both an Israeli and Palestinian perspective. Everyone is welcome. Our six films can be founded listed in separate events. Watch one or immerse yourself for the night and watch them all.
Admission is by-donation.
Bring a blanket, a pillow, anything you need to get comfortable. Fair trade organic coffee with fair trade organic sugar, fair trade organic cream or fair trade organic soy milk will be available compliments of Social Justice and Peace Club King's University College. BYOM - Bring Your Own Mug.
Territories
A contemplation of occupation, exploitation, documentation and the role of the photographer and his art
Mary Ellen Davis / Canada / 2007 / 64 min
A giant in the world of documentary photography, Larry Towell has garnered several top-level honors, including the 2005 Priz Nadar and the first Henri Cartier-Bresson Award. This program follows Towell as he uses his camera to confront foreboding landscapes and shed light on struggling communities—drawing parallels between the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border. Towell also reflects on the creative process, offers insight into the photojournalist’s trade, and describes his experiences as an eyewitness to the 9/11 attack on New York City. His thoughtful commentary accompanies numerous examples of his work.
Filmed in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (West Bank and East-Jerusalem), at the border between Mexico and the United States (States of California and Baja California), New York and Southern Ontario in Canada.
TERRITORIES will be preceded by the short - A DAY IN PALESTINE
A DAY IN PALESTINE
Mary Ellen Davis /2007 /Canada /6 minutes
SYNOPSIS: Deceptively beautiful, this Super-8 Kodachrome collection of vignettes of everyday life for Palestinians under occupation has a dreamlike quality, but the reality is anything but. A man picks olives against an azure sky. Grandmothers plead with expressionless soldiers as excavators wait on the hills behind them. Children and the elderly struggle to climb the brutal concrete wall that divides their homes, schools, mosques and workplaces as the film builds to a powerful indictment against oppression.
Credits
Photos by Larry Towell http://www.magnumphotos.com
Director Mary Ellen Davis
Producer Yanick Létourneau
Composer Antoine Bustros
Cinematography Mark Ellam
Sound Recordists Pablo Villegas Hernandez, Juan Gutierrez
Editing Mariano Franco
Sound Editing Hugo Brochu, Patrice LeBlanc
Prod. Périphéria Productions www.peripheria.ca
Produced with the financial participation of :
SODEC Société de développement des entreprises culturelles - Québec
FCT Fonds canadien de télévision
Crédit d’impôt cinéma et télévision - Sodec
FCFVI Fonds canadien du film et de la vidéo indépendants
Crédit d'impôt pour production cinématographique ou magnétoscopique canadienne
CAC Conseil des Arts du Canada
In association with Bravo!
With the collaboration of Téléquébec, TVOntario-TFO, and CBC Newsworld
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