Film - Gaza Strip
Posted: Monday January 19th, 2009
Upcoming Event: Friday January 30th, 2009.
Friday, Jan. 30, 7:00 pm
Held at: Trinity Presbyterian Church
2200 N. Bell (at Sherman), Denton
Free, but we are asking for a donation of whatever you can afford to go toward Gaza Relief. This money will go through the Dallas Peace Center which has set up a relief fund.
American documentary filmmaker James Longley (Iraq In Fragments) traveled to the Gaza Strip in January of 2001, planning to stay for two weeks and collect preliminary material for a film about the Palestinian intifada. He threw away his return ticket and stayed for another 3 months, shooting over 75 hours of material throughout the Gaza Strip.
Gaza Strip follows a range of people and events following the election of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, including the first major armed incursion into "Area A" by IDF forces during this intifada. The film is filmed almost entirely in a verite style, presented without narration and with little explanation, focusing on ordinary Palestinians rather than politicians and pundits. More observation than political argument, Gaza Strip offers a rare look inside the stark realities of Palestinian life and death under Israeli military occupation.
The Media Education Foundation is making its 2003 film Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land: U.S. Media and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict available online FOR FREE.
MEF is taking this unprecedented step to offer critical perspective on how the U.S. news media are covering this crisis.
Go to www.pppl.org to either watch or download the film for free.