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DESCRIPTION:\nRE-IMAGINING GAZA\nDirected by Local Filmmaker Roger Hill\n– appearing 
 in person\n \nThe Gaza Strip, a small territory on the Mediterranean 
 largely inaccessible to the outside world, remains an enigmatic and 
 misunderstood place.  The Re-Imagining Gaza project seeks to explore and 
 capture the human spirit and contrasting colors of Gaza, socially, 
 culturally, and politically, through a series of cinematic interventions 
 and participatory media.  Local filmmaker Roger Hill will showcase short 
 films that were produced in digital story-telling workshops of Palestinian 
 youth in Gaza City and the Jabaliya Refugee Camp in July and August of  
 2010.  Roger is also Director of the film, Lost in the Land of the 
 American, and Co-Director of Tree of Life and Tayara Warakiya (Flying 
 Paper) –  films shown in full or in part this evening.  Roger was a youth 
 media trainer in Gaza during the summer of 2010.  He is the founder of the 
 documentary collective Mental-Rev Productions and will be on hand to 
 discuss the films.\n\nThis Evening’s Program\n\nVoices Beyond Walls 
 (Participatory Youth Media) is a selection of short films written, filmed, 
 edited and produced by the members of the Voices Beyond Walls youth media 
 program in Jabaliya Refugee Camp in the summer of 2010.  This is a diverse 
 selection of comedy, documentary, and artistic films.\n\nLost in the Land 
 of the American is about Rana, a Palestinian woman who speaks no English 
 and carries no cell phone, who gets lost in downtown San Francisco during 
 the holiday shopping season and must seek help.  (11 Minutes, San 
 Francisco)\n\nThe Tree of Life is about a tree where young lovers or 
 “wannabe” lovers go to carve their names, or, if they’re more 
 discreet, the initials, of the ones they love.  This film focuses on a 
 generation of Palestinian women in a rural neighborhood of Gaza who discuss 
 love, war, family history, Gaza, and the significance that the tree has 
 played in their lives.  (10 minutes)\n\nTayara Warakiya (Flying Paper) (an 
 excerpt) tells the story of young Palestinians in Gaza as they attempt to 
 break a world record on July 29, 2010, for the most kites flown 
 simultaneously.  The film explores the lives of these children, while 
 probing the tradition and symbolism of making and flying kites in Gaza.  
 (11 minutes)\n\nSnacks and drinks will be provided and the audience is 
 encouraged to mingle and have a good time before and after the 
 screenings.\n\nWheelchair accessible around the corner at  411  28th  
 Street\n\n$5 donations are accepted\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/02/26/18673167.php
SUMMARY:Re-Imagining Gaza
LOCATION:Humanist Hall\n390  27th  Street\nuptown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway\nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/02/26/18673167.php
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