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DESCRIPTION:This documentary film by Simone Bitton is a critical, in-depth look at the 
 life and tragic death of Rachel Corrie, the American activist killed in 
 Gaza in 2003 by a Caterpillar bulldozer operated by the Israeli military.  
 Rachel, working with the International Solidarity Movement, was killed 
 while trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian family's home.  The 
 film examines Rachel's life and activism, as well as the inadequate 
 military investigation into her death.\n\nCindy Corrie, Rachel Corrie's 
 mother,  in person at the Castro.\n\nIn a now-infamous incident in 2003, 
 Rachel Corrie, a 22-year-old peace activist from the Pacific Northwest, 
 attempted to stop a bulldozer operated by the Israeli military from 
 demolishing homes and other buildings in Gaza. Corrie was struck and killed 
 in what some witnesses claimed was a deliberate action, but what an Israeli 
 inquiry ruled was a tragic accident. Simone Bitton (Wall, SFJFF 2005), a 
 veteran documentary filmmaker who is a citizen of both France and Israel, 
 has crafted a dispassionate but devastating essay investigating the 
 circumstances of Rachel Corrie’s death—including astounding eyewitness 
 testimony from activists, soldiers, army spokespersons and physicians, as 
 well as insights from Corrie’s parents, mentors and diaries. In 
 assembling a thorough and candid account of the event, using both visual 
 and narrative evidence, Bitton’s quietly persistent questioning manages 
 to accomplish what the inadequate legal proceedings and the overheated 
 press coverage did not: an unflinching examination that refuses to 
 exculpate or equivocate. But Bitton’s nonfiction essay is hardly a 
 bloodless tract—in fact, even as it raises troubling questions about the 
 Israeli military’s candor, it also manages to paint a complex portrait of 
 a young, perhaps naive, idealist and the high price some pay in the name of 
 committed activism.\n\n—Peter L. Stein\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/07/14/18607943.php
SUMMARY:documentary film about Rachel Corrie, Jewish Film Festival
LOCATION:Sat, July 25 2009, 1:30pm\nCastro Theatre, San Francisco\n\nTue, August 4 
 2009, 6:30pm\nThe Roda Theater, Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/07/14/18607943.php
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