The award-winning filmmaker on representing Palestine’s overlooked film history and how she intends to pass her knowledge on to a new generationWhen Annemarie Jacir pitched her thesis film at graduate school some 20 years ago, her advisor told her the best place for her script was in the garbage.
It was an ambitious project for the young Columbia University student: A Palestinian film crew navigating their way through Israeli checkpoints in occupied territory as they attempt to reach Jerusalem certainly didn’t fit the traditional mold of thesis short films.But the brilliance of Jacir and her work is that she is not a filmmaker who conforms.
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