FILM: In The Image – Palestinian Women Capture The Occupation
DATE: Saturday, Jan. 30, 7pm
LOCATION: Kehilla’s Sanctuary, 1300 Grand Ave., Piedmont
Light snacks, $5-10 Donation (No one turned away)
Join the Kehilla Middle East Peace Committee for a showing of the award winning film, In the Image. Event also includes a Questions and Answers session with the directors, Judith Montell and Emmy Scharlatt.
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Winner of The Audience Award from Films de Femmes Festival, France and the Edward Snowden Award from the Filmes de Nuit in Lisbon, In the Image explores the daily lives of Palestinian women living in the occupied West Bank. The Camera Project, a unique collaboration of Palestinians and Israelis created by the Jerusalem-based human rights organization B’Tselem, gave volunteers video cameras and taught them how to film.
And film they did, capturing stunning images of human rights abuses by settlers and the army alongside the events of their own lives. The strikingly personal footage they produce brings the viewer into the homes and daily existence of the women, helping close the gap between Western preconceptions of Palestinians and their lived reality. Broadcast on YouTube and other internet sites, footage collected by The Camera Project has gone viral in many countries, including Israel, and helped challenge the media stereotypes we have accepted. Some of the videos have been admitted as evidence in Israeli courts and helped lead to the convictions of abusive soldiers and their superiors.
Event co-sponsored by:
Jewish Voice for Peace, Bay Area
Keep Hope Alive Bay Area (Presbyterians)
Lighthouse Mosque of Oakland
And the Faith Trio Committee of:
Kehilla Community Synagogue
Montclair Presbyterian Church
Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California