Director: Julia Bacha Producers: Rula Salameh, Rebekah Wingert-Jabi
Description:
When a nation-wide uprising breaks out in 1987, a woman in Gaza must
make a choice between love, family, and freedom. Undaunted, she
embraces all three, joining a clandestine network of women in a
movement that forces the world to recognize the Palestinian right to
self-determination for the first time. Naila and the Uprising chronicles the remarkable journey of Naila Ayesh whose story weaves
through the most vibrant, nonviolent mobilization in Palestinian
history –- the First Intifada in the late 1980s.
Biography:
Julia
Bacha is a Peabody
award-winning filmmaker, media strategist, and Creative Director at
Just Vision. Her credits include Control
Room, Encounter
Point, Budrus, My Neighbourhood,
and The Wanted 18.
Bacha is the recipient of the King Hussein Leadership Prize, the
Search for Common Ground Award, the Ridenhour Film Prize, and the
PUMA Creative Impact Award. She is a Term Member at the Council on
Foreign Relations, a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum,
an Advisory Board Member to the Tribeca Film Institute, and a TED
speaker.
Rula
Salameh is the Education and Outreach Director, Palestine at Just
Vision, a nonprofit that highlights the power and reach of
Palestinians and Israelis working to end the occupation and build a
future of freedom, dignity, and equality. She has served as the
Middle East Liaison for the organization Peace X Peace, and as the
Project Coordinator for Middle East Nonviolence and Democracy. She is
a member of the International Federation of Journalists and sits on
the Board of Palestinian Friends Without Borders.Rebekah Wingert-Jabi hasover twelve years of
producing, directing and editing experience in film and television.
She worked on films that aired on Al Arabiya, the Discovery Channel,
and PBS. Rebekah lived in the West Bank for eight years where she
worked with Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers to produce films
(Swish, Swish)
and documentaries (A Good
Samaritan). Rebekah has
managed youth media projects in the Middle East including a
Palestinian-Israeli video exchange project.
