My next feature doc is finished. I have spent the past two and a half years on “Solidarity”, a 70-minute documentary about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
I interviewed three Palestinian-American activists (the brilliant Noor Alahmadi is pictured here) and three Jewish-American activists including a professor of Jewish Liberation theology. After a year and a half of editing, with plenty of found footage, articles, and other interviews, the film is finished.
The subtitle is “Five Largely Unknown Truths about Israel, Palestine, and the Occupied Territories”, because I think the five points we cover are explanatory and educational to those uneducated about the current state of affairs.
The point of view is from the Palestinian people, as the American media is so heavily pro-Israel, I’m okay with leaning a bit more towards the other direction. Its Palestinian perspective is one of the reasons why my Jewish Voice for Peace colleagues have been such important collaborators—they are sincere Jewish seekers for justice and universal human rights. To be completely clear, my intention is not to malign the Jewish people or the Jewish religion, but rather to expose injustice.
I uploaded it this week and will be sharing to several other outlets over the next few days.
More on the film in this Medium piece I wrote:
https://medium.com/@bewherehow/were-all-in-this-together-palestine-advocacy-film-fc707fd396b1
I hope you enjoy the film and find it worthy to share. #palestine #israel #gaza #westbank #peaceinthemiddleeast
What a joy to film and produce a short piece starring Prajnananandaji. This new temple in Brenham is straight out of a Miyazaki film.