THIS IS MY LAND…HEBRON is among the most important films featured at the June 2011 New York Human Rights Watch Film Festival. It is an outstanding Italian-Israeli documentary coproduced by Giulia Amati and Stephen Natanson which has received many rewards since its release in 2010. The film presents interviews with Israeli journalists and politicians as well as statements by spokes persons for the settlers and Palestinians. It provides an extraordinary insight into the mindsets of the warring p...

  MORNINGS IN JENIN by Susan Abulhawa Anna Soler-Pont about of Pontas Literary and Film Agency: "It is a great novel on Palestine published recently in the US by Bloomsbury and into 21 other territories in Europe and Asia so far! There is a great film inside this book! The world needs a film like this one!" More information here: http://www.pontas-agency.com/Llibres/ENG/Book_Mornings_in_Jenin_6860.asp   ...

Caught Sherine Salama documentary yesterday called "The Last Days of Yasser Arafat". Too bad the Australian director, Salama wasn't able to be there. A few years ago, she screened her first documentary "A Wedding in Ramallah" at the festival and there was a lively discussion afterwards. I'll be posting the remaining interview with Nancy Collet, programming director at the AFI, later today. ...