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DESCRIPTION:A RARE SCREENING OF JAMES LONGLEY’S NEWEST DOCUMENTARY  FILM “GAZA 
 STRIP”-A GLIMPSE INTO THE LIVES OF PALESTINIANS IN GAZA 2001. \n\nSan 
 Francisco, California—Saturday, August 24th, 7pm at Artist Television 
 Access, 992 Valencia Street—$5 admission\n\n	Little is known about the 
 Gaza Strip.  To many of us in America, it is a 6 o’clock news sound bite 
 that conjures up images of Palestinian terrorists, bomb factories, and 
 endless violence.  However the Gaza Strip houses approximately 1 million 
 people in an area of 360sq km, twice the size of Washington DC.  Most of 
 those people are regular Palestinian families trying to earn a wage, feed 
 their children, and deal with the ever present and highly oppressive 
 Israeli occupation.  \nOn Saturday, August 24th, 7:00pm, at Artist 
 Television Access in San Francisco, there will be a screening of James 
 Longley’s newest documentary film, “Gaza Strip”.  This film captures 
 powerful scenes of life in Gaza through the eyes of Mohammed Hejazi, a 13 
 year old paper boy in Gaza City.  In addition, Longley documents an 
 extremely controversial incident in February 2001 in Khan Younis refugee 
 camp, which fell largely through the cracks of international scrutiny. The 
 Israeli Defense Forces used an unidentified, powerful gas during a 
 firefight, hospitalizing over 200 Palestinians with severe recurrent 
 convulsions.\nWith no voice over to taint your experience, “Gaza Strip” 
 gives you the account and allows you to make up your own mind about the 
 state of affairs in Palestine.  There will be music from San Francisco rock 
 trio Fojimoto http://www.fojimoto.com and singer/songwriter John O’Brien 
 at 7pm.   \nJames Longley was born in Oregon in 1972 and received a film 
 education at the University of Rochester and Wesleyan University in the 
 United States, and the Russian Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in 
 Moscow. James received the Student Academy Award from the Academy of Motion 
 Picture Arts and Sciences for his short documentary, “Portrait of Boy 
 with Dog,” about a boy in a Moscow orphanage. “Gaza Strip,” his first 
 feature documentary, was produced on location during the spring of 
 2001.\nThe FreeWheeler Music Group is sponsoring this event.  Founded in 
 2000 by Marwan Kanafani in  Berkeley, California, FMG produces records from 
 struggling San Francisco musicians.  In 2002, FMG began organizing 
 political forums, film screenings and musical events focusing on the 
 conflict in Palestine. \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/9033.php
SUMMARY:Film Screening "Gaza Strip" at Artist Television Access
LOCATION:Artists\' Television Access\n992 Valencia Street\nSan Francisco, CA 
 94110\n(415) 824-3890\nata@atasite.org\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/9033.php
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