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DESCRIPTION:For Immediate Release				Contact: 	Erica Marcus    							510.459.4182    
 Award winning Oakland filmmaker screens new film Alive In Limbo at La Peña 
  about five Arab youth in the Middle East    Oakland filmmaker Erica 
 Marcus's new film Alive In Limbo, co-Directed by Hrabba Gunnarsdottir and 
 former Berkeley resident Tina Naccache, will screen at La Pena Cultural 
 Center, Friday, December 10 at 7:30pm. La Pena is located at 3105 Shattuck 
 Ave, Berkley.  Tickets are sliding scale $6-$10.  Proceeds from the 
 screening will support the distribution of this important new documentary 
 about the reality of life for Arab youth in the Middle East. For more info. 
 call 510-459-4182.  Erica will be at the screening for audience discussion 
 following the screening.  Ten years in the making, ALIVE IN LIMBO follows 
 the stories of four Palestinian refugee youth from the Shatila refugee camp 
 and one Lebanese boy from just outside the former Israeli occupied zone. In 
 1993 Marcus went to Lebanon and filmed the five youth. At the time, many 
 people around the world were celebrating the signing of the Oslo Peace 
 Accords between the Israelis and the Palestinians that was supposed to 
 signal a new future for peace in the Middle East.  In 1999, 2000 and 2002, 
 Erica teamed up with Hrabba and Tina and searched for these same youth as 
 they were entering adulthood. These youth, like kids everywhere, talk about 
 girlfriends and boyfriends and dream of the future. Yet their dreams are 
 nurtured against a backdrop of history and politics that they can't wish 
 away.  The film received the Spirit Award in the Documentary competition at 
 the Brooklyn International Film Festival. It also was shown to a packed 
 house at Cinemayaat, The Arab Film Festival and at the Castro Theater 
 during the Film Arts Festival.  The December 10th screening at La Pena is a 
 benefit towards a grassroots distribution campaign for the film.  Erica 
 Marcus, a Jewish filmmaker has been working in film and video for over 
 twenty years.  Her film MY HOME, MY PRISON about one of the first 
 Palestinians to initiate dialogue with the Israelis premiered at the 
 prestigious Sundance Film Festival.  Hrabba Gunnarsdottir and Tina Naccache 
 collaborated on STRAIGHT OUT about queer Icelandic youth.  STRAIGHT OUT 
 shared the $10,000 Prize for Best Documentary at the SF Lesbian and Gay 
 Film Festival in 2003.     
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SUMMARY:Oakland filmmaker screens film on Arab youth at La Pena
LOCATION:3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/11/28/53023.php
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