Film
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Full House for The Golden Harvest Debut at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival
(March 14, 2019) The Golden Harvest (2019, 85 min) made its debut on March 4, 2019 at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival to a full house. The screening was followed by a lively Q & A that continued onto the pier along the fabulous arthouse area of the city where the majority of the festival Continue reading
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The Schedule for Thessaloniki International Film Festival
We are delighted that The Golden Harvest will make its international debut at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival . Please join us if you can! For more information, visit: https://www.filmfestival.gr/en/movie/movie/11920 TONIA MARKETAKI 04 March 2019 15:30 JOHN CASSAVETES 05 March 2019 12:45 Continue reading
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The Golden Harvest to Premiere at Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Every filmmaker making a film on her own dreams of it opening at a Top 10 ranked festival. We are delighted thus that The Golden Harvest will make its debut on March 4 at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in Greece. Not only is it a great festival–it’s in the country with the highest per Continue reading
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The Golden Harvest in Post Production
The olives are still too green for oil. But if they want them for table olives, they’ll do okay. Continue reading
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My Very Short Middle East Movie List
Recently a professor in the US asked me if I could put together a list of Arabic language films she might be able to use in her women’s studies and global studies classes. This is only a short excursion around 20 plus countries sharing a common language and multiple problems and plenty of quirkiness. Continue reading
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A Good Library is Hard To Find
What is more important in a library than anything else – than everything else – is the fact that it exists. ~Archibald MacLeish, “The Premise of Meaning,” American Scholar, 5 June 1972 The other day in Jordan, my mother made the day of a young Spanish woman with whom we were chatting by telling her Continue reading
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A Palestinian Filmmaker in Israel
For years, my friend Hala Gabriel has been working on documentary about the destruction in 1948 of Tantura, her family’s picturesque village in what was then Palestine. For a Palestinian to even attempt such a project as hers is to face unfathomable odds, which she has. Finally, she was able to get to Tantura in Continue reading
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The Middle East Film Festival: And the Winners Are…
The closing night of the Middle East Film festival was the hot ticket of the week, for both goats and people. The festival did a good job of building the hype all week, with rumors running all week that George Clooney would come for the evening, which included the first screening outside of North America Continue reading
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MIDDLE EAST FILM FESTIVAL AND WOMEN GONE MAD
I’m reluctant to refer to Raja Amari’s film, “Buried Secrets,” as Tunisian film after the verbal brow beating she took from several Tunisians in the audience. The film is about three woman living secretly in an old, abandoned family home, hiding from the world—and particularly the men in it–for years. Their isolation is disturbed by Continue reading
Alia Yunis 