BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:338@palestinecampaign.org DTSTART:20130430T183000Z DTEND:20130430T220000Z DTSTAMP:20130411T142121Z URL:https://palestinecampaign.org/events/screening-of-5-broken-cameras-2/ SUMMARY:Screening of 5 Broken Cameras DESCRIPTION:West London Palestine Solidarity Campaign invite you to a scree ning on Tuesday 30th April at 7pm of\n\nthe Academy-nominated and award wi nning documentary '5 Broken Cameras' directed by Emad Burnat &\; Guy Da vidi\n\n \;\n\nAdmission is free. Doors open 6.30. Refreshments served .\nPresented by West London Palestine Solidarity Campaign\n(pscwestlondon@ googlemail.com\; www.palestinecampaign.org)\n \;\n\n\nWhen his fourth son Gibreel is born in 2005\, self-taught cameraman Emad Burnat\, a Palest inian villager\, gets his first camera. While the people of his village\, Bil’in in the West Bank\, begin to resist the construction of a separati on barrier that will consume their farmlands\, Burnat films their non-viol ent struggle. Very soon\, events begin to affect Emad and his family. Ther e are daily arrests and violent attacks while protesters are shot at and d etained by Israeli police. As Emad documents these events\, one camera aft er another is smashed – and each camera becomes a chapter in his struggl e.\n\n“If you are wounded you will always remember your wound\, even aft er it’s healed. But what if you are injured again and again… you forge t your scars. But the camera remembers and so I film to heal”.Emad Burna t\n\n\n \;\n\nNotes for editors:\n\n \;\n\nAn extraordinary work o f both cinematic and political activism\, 5 Broken Cameras is a deeply per sonal\, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in\, a West Ba nk village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements and the building of the separation wall.\n\nShot almost entirely by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat\, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his y oungest son\, the footage was later turned into a galvanizing cinematic ex perience by co-directors Guy Davidi and Burnat.\n\nStructured around the v iolent destruction of a succession of Burnat's video cameras\, the filmmak ers' collaboration follows one family's evolution over five years of villa ge turmoil. Burnat watches from behind the lens as olive trees are bulldoz ed\, protests intensify\, and lives are lost. "I feel like the camera prot ects me\," he says\, "but it's an illusion."\n\n \;\n\nBackground:\n\n In 2009\, Emad approached Isaeli film maker\, Guy Davidi\, to make a film together. The idea was to focus on two characters Adeeb and Phil. Phil wa s killed during the resistance and Emad wanted to create a film that would memorialize Phil. The film was developed through the Greenhouse Program w ith Dutch filmmaker John Appel as a mentor. During the Greenhouse sessions the script was written telling Emad’s story from a personal perspectiv e.\n\n“It was a very hard decision for me to make a personal film. This is not something people here can understand easily. It means exposure of s ome difficult moments like my arrest or my accident.”\n\nPersonal statem ent :\n\n"As an Israeli and a Palestinian\, we knew we would be criticized for making a film together even before we began. Indeed\, the differences in our cultural backgrounds\, life experience\, access to the outside wor ld\, and privileges afforded us presented immediately and were unavoidable . By necessity\, we learned to use these complications to our benefit.\n\n We made 5 BROKEN CAMERAS to inspire people in their own lives\, beyond the scope of political discourse. Although politics are an inherent foundatio n of the film\, we made sincere attempts to challenge our own biases\, set ting aside cliché and ideological traps. In the end\, we have opened our hearts to viewers\, and hope they will respond in kind."\n\nEMAD BURNAT an d GUY DAVIDI\n\nCo-Directors\, 5 BROKEN CAMERAS\n\nThe documentary was nom inated for an Academy award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2013 Osca rs.\n\nReceived World Cinema Directing Award at Sundance Festival 2012\n\ nEvent flyer for downloading is attached. For any further information pl ease contact:\n West London Palestine Solidarity Campaign\n(pscwestlondon @googlemail.com\; www.palestinecampaign.org) CATEGORIES:Priority LOCATION: Chiswick Catholic Centre\, 2 Duke's Avenue\, off Chiswick High Rd .\, W4 2AE\, London\, London\, United Kingdom X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=2 Duke's Avenue\, off Chisw ick High Rd.\, W4 2AE\, London\, London\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=10 0;X-TITLE= Chiswick Catholic Centre:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR