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DIRECTOR / PRODUCER
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
SOUND
COPRODUCER
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COPRODUCER AND EDITOR
EDITING
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
// Yael Lerer
GRAPHICS/WEB DESIGN
Rachel Leah Jones is an independent director/producer born in Berkeley, California. After growing up in Israel, she returned to the United States where she completed her BA in Race, Class and Gender Studies, Film and Photography at Evergreen College in Olympia, Washington. She completed her MFA in Media Arts Production at the City University of New York. Aside from working on numerous documentaries in Israel/Palestine, she also worked with the Alternative Information Center (AIC) in Jerusalem--a joint Palestinian/Israeli organization that disseminates critical information and progressive analysis on Israeli society, Palestinian society, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the public radio/tv program Democracy Now!. 500 DUNAM ON THE M00N is Jones' directorial debut.
2004 Assistant/Director
Wall 98 minute documentary about the Separation Fence under construction between Israel and the West Bank. Directed by Simone Bitton. Co-Produced by Cine-Sud Promotions/Paris and Arna Productions/Jerusalem. Director's Fortnight Cannes 2004.
2003 Director/Producer
Ashkenaz 52-minute documentary about Ashkenaziness in Israeli society. Co-Produced by RLJ Productions/Berkeley and Trabelsi Productions/Tel Aviv. In Production.
2003 Director/Producer
Gypsy Davy Feature-length portrait of David Sérva (nee David Crumpton Jones), a white boy from Alabama who reinvented himself as a legendary flamenco guitarist. Co-Produced by RLJ Productions/Berkeley and Les Films D’Ici/Paris. In production.
2002 Director/Producer
500 Dunam on the Moon 47-minute documentary about Ayn Hawd, a Palestinian village occupied and depopulated by Israeli forces in 1948 and transformed into a Jewish artists’ colony. Co-Produced by RLJ Productions/New York and Momento!/Paris. Produced in association with Channel 2/France and Sindibad Films/London.
2000 Line Producer
Raging Dove 74-minute documentary portrait of Johar Abu Lashin, a Palestinian-Israeli boxer living in Johnson City, Tennessee. Directed by Zadok Dror. Produced by Zygote Films/Tel Aviv.
1999 Assistant Director
Citizen Bishara 52-minute portrait of Dr. Azmi Bishara, a Palestinian philosopher and member of the Israeli Knesset. Directed by Simone Bitton. Produced by Arna Productions/Jerusalem, Cineteve/Paris, Planete/Paris.
1998 Assistant Director
L'attentat 58-minute documentary about the common mourning of Palestinian and Israeli families following a suicide bombing in Jerusalem. Directed by Simone Bitton. Produced by Arna Productions/Jerusalem for Channel 2/France, RTBF/Belgium and Channel 8./Israel
1998 Assistant Director
Shenkin: Street of Faith 26 minute documentary about the friendship between an orthodox woman and a secular woman who live side by side in the heart of hipster Tel Aviv. Directed by Zadok Dror. Produced by Zygote Films/Tel Aviv for Channel 2/Israel.
1997 Line Producer
Warp and Weft 26-minute documentary portrait of Fanny Al-Fasi, a laid-off textile worker in a company town in the south of Israel. Directed by Zadok Dror. Produced by Zygote Films/Tel Aviv for Channel 2/Israel.
1996 Line Producer
Cafe Noah 26-minute documentary about Jewish musicians from Iraq and Egypt and their struggle to maintain their music once in Israel. Directed by Zadok Dror. Produced by Zygote Films/Tel Aviv for Channel 2/Israel.
1994 Researcher
Yasmine 60-minute documentary about the murder of Palestinian women for so-called family honor in Israel. Directed by Nizar Hassan. Produced by Matar Productions/Tel Aviv.
Philippe Bellaiche is a cinematographer born in Paris. Prior to completing his studies at the Ecole National Superieur Louis Lumiere, he completed an MA in Epistemology and Logic at the Sorbonne. In addition to working as a cinematographer on a variety of fiction and documentary projects, he has taught in the Film Departments at Tel Aviv University, Camera Obscura (Tel Aviv), and Sam Spiegel (Jerusalem). His credits include: Raging Dove by Duke Dror; Circumcision, by Nurith Aviv; My Enemy, My Friend: the Life of Uri Avneri, by Yair Lev; Forget Baghdad, by Samir; A Day in September, by Kevin MacDonald; Tapouz, by Amos Gitai; Paulus Mystery, by Abraham Segal; and Route 181 by Eyal Sivan and Michel Khleifi, among others.
Dahna Abourahme is a media artist and activist born in Amman. After immigrating to the United States with her family, she completed her BS in Humanities and International Affairs at Georgetown University. She completed her MFA in Media Studies at the New School for Social Research in New York, where she specialized in audio design. In addition to producing/directing short experimental pieces, she works with children as an audio-video instructor in both New York and Palestine. Her credits include: Water, Burning Wood, and Sand; Sifting; Palestinian From Brooklyn; Palestine is Waiting; Travelogue: Palestinian Landscape; and Blue Flickers.
Eyal Sivan is a director/producer born in Haifa. In 1985 Sivan left Israel to settle in Paris. His first film, about Palestinian refugees, won the Cinéma du Réel Prize at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. More recently, he won the Adolf Grimm Gold prize in Germany for his work "The Specialist," inspired by Hannah Arendt's essay "Eichmann in Jerusalem." Sivan is the general director of the Paris-based production company Momento!. His credits include: Route 181: Fragments of a Journey through Palestine/Israel; Scalpel; The Specialist; Populations in Danger; Burundi Under Terror; Itsembatsemba: Rwanda One Genocide Later; Aqabat Jaber: Peace with no Return?; Jerusalems: Borderline Syndromes; Jerusalem, Jerusalems; Itgaber: He will Overcome; Israeland; Izkor: Slaves of Memory; and Aqabat Jaber: Passing Through.
Ruben Korenfeld is an editor, producer, and director born in Buenos Aires. Between 1974 and 1980 he lived in Israel and since then has lived and worked in France. His credits include: Ouessant, by Patrick Le Gall; I love Pinochet, by Marcela Saïd; Gao Rang (Fried Rice), by Claude Grünspan; Justice en Europe, by Martin Messonnier; Sao Paolo, by Guilberto Ferrari; Jérusalem, by Marek Halter and Stéphane Kurc; Yom Yom, by Amos Gitai: Montoneros: Une Histoire Argentine, by Frédéric Compain; Chicago, by Alfredo Vallardao; Le Cantique des Pierres, by Bernard Mangiante; Une Etoile est Morte, by Paz Bilbao; Kieslowsky Dialogues, by Ruben Korenfeld; Dockers, by Martine Jouando; and Trotsky, by Patrick Le Gall, among others.
ANGELA ALSTON is a director, producer, and editor born in New York. She completed her BA in philosophy at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania and her MFA in Film and Video Production at the University of Texas at Austin. A member of the board of directors of the Association for Independent Video and Filmmakers, she is currently working with the public radio/tv program Democracy Now!.
Lorena Luciano is a director and editor born in Milan. She completed her BA in Law at the University of Milan, augmenting her legal studies with film studies at UCLA and The New School for Social Research in New York. She has edited numerous documentary features, including her own award winning Dario Foe & Franca Rame: A Nobel for Two.
Sarah Schubart is an editor born in Oakland, California. She received her BA from the University of California at Berkeley in Interdisciplinary Studies. Her film work includes assistant editing on a major studio feature; segment editing for San Francisco's PBS station; and editing an episodic television show for Fox. She currently works as a special effects editor with Tippett Studio in Berkeley, CA.
Omar Al-Qattan http://www.sindibad.co.uk/CV/omarcv.html
Yael Lerer is a publisher/activist born in Tel Aviv. She studied in the Interdisciplinary Program for Fostering Excellence at Tel Aviv University where she specialized in Israeli culture, critical theory, women’s studies, and history. She also studied at the American University in Cairo where she completed advanced levels in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic and Modern Literary Arabic. The former assistant to Palestinian philosopher and Member of Knesset Dr. Azmi Bishara, she was also the founding editor of the Hebrew monthly magazine Mitsad Sheni. She has worked extensively as a freelance researcher, writer, editor, and translator for documentary films, newspapers, and academic journals. Currently, she is the founder and general director of Andalus Publishing, an independent press dedicated to the translation of Arabic literature into Hebrew.
JEFFREY YAS is a graphic designer working in New York City. He received his BA in Anthropology with a focus in Archaeology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He spent several years in Jerusalem working as a field archaeologist while volunteering at the Alternative Information Center. For the past 7 years, Jeff's freelance graphic design business has grown into a full-service print and web design studio. Please send him an email if you have graphic needs: jeff@jeffyas.com, or visit his website at: http://www.jeffyas.com.
Director/Producer
Rachel Leah Jones
Director of Photography
Philippe Bellaiche
Additional Camera
Duke Dror
Rachel Leah Jones
Sound
Dahna Abourahme
Editor
Ruben Korenfeld
Assistant Editor
Eulalie Korenfeld
Additional Editing
Angela Alston Yael Bitton Lorena Luciano Sarah Schubart
Executive Producers
Ruben Korenfeld Eyal Sivan
Associate Producers
Omar Al-Qattan Yael Lerer
Production Manager
Armelle Laborie
Produced by
Momento! (Paris)
RLJ Productions (New York)
Produced in Association with
The Alternative Information Center (Jerusalem)
Sindibad Films (London)
France 2 (Paris)
Production Assistance
Ziad Abbas Jason Benjamin Randi Cecchine Munir Fakher al-Din Gabrielle
Rubin
Production Stills
Ahlam Shibli
Translation
Munir Fakher al-Din Wael Qattan Bashar Tarabieh
Post-Production Assistance
Yigal Nizri Jaime Omar Yassin
Online Editor
Peter Elphick
Mix
David Lassalle
Color Grading
Isabelle Laclau
Graphics
Patrick Anok Thierry Baudier
Web Design
Jeffrey Yas
Legal Services
Susan Steiger
Accounting
Marysette Moisset Dinesh Kapadia
Participants (in alphabetical order)
Asim Abu al-Hayja Fares Abu al-Hayja Husni Abu al-Hayja Khaled Abu al-Hayja
Lina Abu al-Hayja Mahmoud Abu al-Hayja Muhammad Majed Abu al-Hayja Muhammad
Mubarak Abu al-Hayja Muhannad Abu al-Hayja Abu al-Hayja Raeda Abu al-Hayja
Saad Abu al-Hayja Yasmin Lewis Alon Yarkoni Eden Yarkoni Yana Yarkoni
and Tali Junger as Mlle. Fifi
Production Services
JCS (Jerusalem)
MCA/CCNY (New York)
Movie Mobile (Tel Aviv)
On Air (Jerusalem)
Petra (Jerusalem)
Scala (Tel Aviv)
Post-Production Services
CMC (Paris)
Downtown Avid (New York)
On Sight (London)
Radical Avid (New York)
Sylicone (Paris)
Archival Materials
Association of Forty
Israel Broadcast Authority Channel 1 Archive
Israel Government Press Office Photo Archive
Israel Second Broadcast Authority Channel 2 Archive
Janco-Dada Museum
Jerusalem Cinematheque Israel Film Archive, Axelrode Collection
Yad Gertrude
Music
“Kerkenah” “Parfum De Gitane”
Anouar Brahem, ECM Records, Munich
Produced with the Support of
Centre National Cinematographique
Al-Jalil Foundation
The Bert Saperstein Communications Trust
The Foundation for Middle East Peace
New York Women in Film and Television
University Film and Video Association