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Abu Hanna, Abu Latif: A Palestinian Road Diary  The filmmaker revisits his childhood home with his father to explore how the larger political and social context of being Palestinian might have affected the father/son relationship.   Selected Works Film Sesame Street: The Israeli-Palestinian Experience (1999)
Sharei Sumsum (1997-1998) Youth and the Environment (1995) The Mountain (1992) The Roof (Al-Sateh) (1990) Accomplishments Director and writer of commissioned works, United Nations Development Program/Program of Assistance to the Palestinian People, 1998-1999
Co-Chairman: The Middle East Peace Network since 1998 and Southern California Chapter of the American Friends of Neve Shalom/Wahat Al-Salam, 1991-1998 Peace Ambassador Award, Rotary Club of Los Angeles, 1996 Education 1991 MFA, Film Production, University or California, Los Angeles
1981 BA, Sociology and Middle East Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Web Site News March - April 2005 Using 129 Palestinian actors, Hanna Elias has dubbed Richard
Attenboroughs 1982 epic Gandhi into
Arabic for screening in
Palestinian communities. Dubbed the Gandhi Project, the film
premiered in April in Ramallah and screened in Jerusalem and Bethlehem,
and is being actively promoted by actors Richard Gere and Ben
Kingsley. www.gandhiproject.org 2003 Year-End Update Hanna Elias's The Olive Harvest, was awarded both Best Arab Film and the Special Jury Award at the Cairo Film Festival in Egypt in October. It also screened at the Jerusalem International Film Festival, the São Paulo Festival in Brazil and the American Film Institute Festival in Los Angeles. Set in the Palestinian countryside, the film explores a tightening web of emotional obligations to family, self and country and shows how even a Palestinian love story is inseparable from the struggle over the land. Late Fall 2003 Hanna Elias's The Olive Harvest was awarded both Best Arab Film and the Special Jury Award at the Cairo Film Festival in Egypt and was a finalist at the São Paulo festival this fall. In November it screened in the American Film Institute Festival in Los Angeles. Set in the Palestinian countryside, the film explores a tightening web of emotional obligations to family, self and country and shows how even a Palestinian love story is inseparable from the struggle over the land. www.theoliveharvest.com |
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