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As a wave of anti-boycott legislation, aimed at pressuring Israel on its human rights record sweeps through the country, so is a counter-wave in defense of freedom of speech. Everyday Americans are challenging these laws for their constitutionality in a nation-wide battle likely to go all the way to the Supreme Court.
About the filmmaker:
Julia Bacha is a Peabody and Guggenheim award-winning filmmaker and the Creative Director at Just Vision, an organization that fills a media gap on Israel-Palestine through independent storytelling and strategic audience engagement. Since graduating Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University, she has strategically used documentary film to foster constructive conversations on some of the most divisive issues of our times.
Julia started her filmmaking career in Cairo, where she wrote and edited Control Room (2004), for which she was nominated for the Writer’s Guild of America Award. Control Room became one of the highest-grossing political documentaries of all time and introduced Americans for the first time to the inner workings of the Arab satellite channel, Al Jazeera.
- Year2021
- Runtime73 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States, Palestine, State of
- Content WarningThis film may include emotional subject matter.
- DirectorJulia Bacha
- ProducerDaniel J. Chalfen, Julia Bacha, Suhad Babaa
- Executive ProducerAbigail Disney, Eleanor Friedman, Deirdre Hegarty, Maxyne Franklin, Micheline Klagsbrun, Ken Grossinger, Barbara Dobkin, Joan R. Platt
- CinematographerKelly West, Amber Fares
- EditorFlavia de Souza, Eric Daniel Metzgar
- ComposerNainita Desai
As a wave of anti-boycott legislation, aimed at pressuring Israel on its human rights record sweeps through the country, so is a counter-wave in defense of freedom of speech. Everyday Americans are challenging these laws for their constitutionality in a nation-wide battle likely to go all the way to the Supreme Court.
About the filmmaker:
Julia Bacha is a Peabody and Guggenheim award-winning filmmaker and the Creative Director at Just Vision, an organization that fills a media gap on Israel-Palestine through independent storytelling and strategic audience engagement. Since graduating Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University, she has strategically used documentary film to foster constructive conversations on some of the most divisive issues of our times.
Julia started her filmmaking career in Cairo, where she wrote and edited Control Room (2004), for which she was nominated for the Writer’s Guild of America Award. Control Room became one of the highest-grossing political documentaries of all time and introduced Americans for the first time to the inner workings of the Arab satellite channel, Al Jazeera.
- Year2021
- Runtime73 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States, Palestine, State of
- Content WarningThis film may include emotional subject matter.
- DirectorJulia Bacha
- ProducerDaniel J. Chalfen, Julia Bacha, Suhad Babaa
- Executive ProducerAbigail Disney, Eleanor Friedman, Deirdre Hegarty, Maxyne Franklin, Micheline Klagsbrun, Ken Grossinger, Barbara Dobkin, Joan R. Platt
- CinematographerKelly West, Amber Fares
- EditorFlavia de Souza, Eric Daniel Metzgar
- ComposerNainita Desai