THE NEED TO KNOW MOVIE SOURCE LIST Compiled by: Betsy Mayfield 515-232-8862 Fax: 515-232-1182 Updated: March 23, 2003 New Film Releases Two New Videos THE LONGING Following the horrific events of World War II, Jewish immigration to Palestine intensified. In 1948, after months of fighting which included the British, Zionists Jordanians and Palestinians, Israel became a state. In the process, more than 400 Palestinian villages were destroyed, and 750,000 Palestinians became refugees. While World War II and Israeli stories have been widely available in the West, we have not heard many stories of the Palestinian experience. The stories presented here are based on oral history interviews with those who lived through the events of 1948, and with Palestinians and Jews who are trying to build a just peace in Israel and Palestine. This video (30 minutes long. VHS) is part of a larger project. Two scenes have been adapted for video from a full-length play, The Longing, which has been performed twenty times from Chicago to Atlanta. The play and the video are based on oral history interviews recorded by Dr. Robert Hostetter from 1998-2000. To tell these profound stories of longing and working for a just peace, Host Productions and HMS Media (Second to None, and Steppenwolf Theatre: Twenty-Five Years on the Edge) have used an imaginative combination of dramatic scenes, interviews. and documentary footage. The goal of the video project is to complete a 57-minute production for public television, home and educational settings. To support the project or for more information, please contact: Dr. Robert HostetterNorth Park University 3225 W. Foster Avenue Chicago, IL 60625 Phone: 773-244-5666 Email: rhostetter@northpark.edu To purchase a copy of this video, please send a check for $15 to North Park University (includes postage and handling and send along with your name, address, email address to: Center for Middle Eastern Studies North Park University 3225 W. Foster Avenue Chicago, IL 60625 (773-244-5786) To purchase some of the music in the video, contact ZAR directly: majed@musician.org SPECIFIC COMPANIES
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Address: Women Make Movies, Inc., Film & Video Dept., 462 Broadway, Suite 502 D, New York, New York 10013. Phone: 1-212-925-0606. Fax: 1-212-925-2052. email: orders@wmn.com GENERAL INFORMATION See review of this excellent festival. Select Film Descriptions and scroll down. Film information included in review material. The Chicago Palestine Film Festival April 17-25, 2003 For information, please contact: www.PalestineFilmFest.com info@palestinefilmfest.com or write to Women in the Directors ChairBeverly Art Center Chicago Cultural Center P O Box 805017 Chicago, IL 60680-4111 Phone: 312-523-7760 Fax: 312-896-5899
Broad search vehicle: www.docuseek.com Set up by Bullfrog Films, this site allows users to search through catalogues of seven of the nation's leading distributors of independent films. Selected Lists of Books and Films published monthly through The American Educational Trust, The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, P.O. Box 53062, Washington, D.C. 20009. Hugh Galford, book club director. Phones: 1-202-939-6050. 1-800-368-5788. Fax: 1-202-232-6754. Email: wrmea@wrmea.com Hugh Galford's email: hgalford@washington_report.org CinemaNation, film division of The Nation Institute, produces and markets human rights films. Contacts: Ham Fish at hamfish@nationinstitute.org or taya@nationinstitute.org Human Rights Watch also has a film and film festival division. Check the website www.hrw.org for information. www.reel.com is a good place to buy hard_to_find films/videos. Address: Reel.com, Jodie Lynch, 2500 Teagarden St., Building "B", San Leandro, California 94577To get one of the film makers of Promises, the excellent film about children's perspectives on various Israeli and Palestinian sides, contact B.Z. Goldberg's office: 510-486-9733, Goldberg at BZ@pobox.com. Distributor for this film: Cowboy Pictures, 13 Laight Street, 6th Floor, New York, New York 10013, www.cowboypictures.com. Increasingly, theaters in major cities are showing Palestinian films. Please support these theaters: Washington, D.C. VISIONS, 1927 Florida Ave. NW, Dupont Circle 202-667-0090. Des Moines, Iowa, The Need To Know Film Consortium’s first festival was held last September. In addition to Exodus, The Women Next Door (Women Make Movies), Promises and Tale of Three Jewels, this festival featured Chicago film maker and resident artist at Columbia College, Chicago, Brigid Maher’s ADRIFT IN THE HEART LAND available through email contact: bmaher@popmail.colum.edu. EXODUS Otto Preminger’s influential 1960's film based on the book by Leon Uris, merits another look 40 years after the making. With Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint and Sal Mineo, this film provides excellent insight in the way Americans were taught to think about one of the most intractable conflicts of our time. Available through www.reel.com or other online movie stores. |