[Peace] special opportunity to bring Budrus to Champaign-Urbana

[Ya'aqov Ziso]

A wonderful film and collaboration! Thank you Bob.
(just spoke also with someone at UFL asking them to purchase the DVD for
individual screenings)

SDM (Solidarity with Democracies in the Middle East) is keenly interested in
finding agencies & agents of social change amongst Palestinians in the
occupied territories. Butrus is such!

Can JFP facilitate SDM in contacting Ayed Morrar or any of his cohorts in
the Butrus project?
Ya'aqov

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*About Budrus ....*      it takes a village to unite the most divided people
on earth.

Budrus is an award-winning feature documentary film about a Palestinian
community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites local Fatah and Hamas members
along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement to save his village of
Budrus from destruction by Israel’s Separation Barrier. Success eludes them
until his 15-year-old daughter, Iltezam, launches a women’s contingent that
quickly moves to the front lines. Struggling side by side, father and
daughter unleash an inspiring, yet little-known, movement in the Occupied
Palestinian Territories that is still gaining ground today. In an
action-filled documentary chronicling this movement from its infancy, Budrus
shines a light on people who choose nonviolence to confront a threat.  The
movie is directed by award-winning filmmaker Julia Bacha (co-writer and
editor of Control Room and co-director Encounter Point), and produced by
Bacha, Palestinian journalist Rula Salameh, and filmmaker and human rights
advocate Ronit Avni (formerly of WITNESS, Director of Encounter Point). Read
more information about the
crew<http://justvision.org/en/budrus/about/filmmakers>
 and cast <http://justvision.org/en/budrus/about/protagonists>.

While this film is about one Palestinian village, it tells a much bigger
story about what is possible in the Middle East. Ayed succeeded in doing
what many people believe to be impossible: he united feuding Palestinian
political groups, including Fatah and Hamas; he brought women to the heart
of the struggle by encouraging his daughter Iltezam's leadership; and
welcoming hundreds of Israelis to cross into Palestinian territory for the
first time and join this nonviolent effort. Many of the activists who joined
the villagers of Budrus are now continuing to support nonviolence efforts in
villages from Bil’in to Nabi Saleh to Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem.

Budrus includes diverse voices-- from the Palestinian leaders of the
movement and their Israeli allies to an Israeli military spokesman, Doron
Spielman, and Yasmine Levy, the Israeli border police captain stationed in
the village at that time. While many documentaries about the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict either romanticize the notion of peace, or
dwell entirely on the suffering of victims to the conflict, this film
focuses on the success of a Palestinian-led nonviolent movement.

In a keynote address immediately following the world premiere of Budrus at a
Gala screening at the Dubai International Film Festival in December 2009,
Her Majesty Queen Noor Al Hussein of Jordan praised the film, stating
that Budrus: "Gives an enormous amount of hope... It's a story which will
have an impact and can help bring [about] change.”

Budrus received the Panorama Audience Award, Second Prize, at the Berlin
International Film Festival in February 2010. It will be screening in
world-renowned festivals around the world throughout 2010. Visit our
Events<http://justvision.org/en/events/table?eventtype[]=Budrus+Screening>
page
to find it in a theater or festival near you. For information regarding the
rights of the film, and how to bring it to your community, visit the Budrus
FAQ <http://justvision.org/en/budrus/about/faq>.

Just Vision has been laying a foundation for the strategic outreach campaign
that we will launch in conjunction with Budrus by reaching out to a wide
range of journalists, influential figures, community leaders, policymakers,
students and educators in order to ensure that the film is seen, covered in
the press as well as incorporated into community and educational
programming.
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