Plan B - Restricted Production · Films of Palestine

Plan B - Restricted Production

Plan B - Restricted Production

Released

1/1/2020

Director

Producing a Palestinian film is never a straight forward task, it involves a lot of planning, not only in terms of image production, but also to make sure your team is safe, that you have the right permissions and that you have another plan - if the original plan doesn't work. In this panel, we will hear from experienced producers who had to go through this every time they make a film with the involvement of Palestinians, Moderated by the legendary filmmaker Jihan El Tahri, who has the experience of filming the palestinian stories since the 70s, from Lebanon and Tunis to Palestine. Jihan El Tahri (Moderator) An Egyptianborn French filmmaker who began her career as a foreign correspondent covering Middle East politics for the Financial Times, Washington Post, and US News & World Reports. El- Tahri has since produced and directed several documentaries, including the trilogy Egypt's Modern Pharaohs (2016), which follows the lives of three successive presidents of Egypt: Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Al-Sadat, and Hosni Mubarak; The House of Saud (2004), which looks at Saudi “US relations through portraits of the kingdom's monarchs; and Behind the Rainbow (2008), which was made during the transition period of a newly independent South Africa. She is also a visual artist, where her work revisits moments of Independence, and decolonization.

Genre

Palestine Historical

Production

Producing a Palestinian film is never a straight forward task, it involves a lot of planning, not only in terms of image production, but also to make sure your team is safe, that you have the right permissions and that you have another plan - if the original plan doesn't work. In this panel, we will hear from experienced producers who had to go through this every time they make a film with the involvement of Palestinians, Moderated by the legendary filmmaker Jihan El Tahri, who has the experience of filming the palestinian stories since the 70s, from Lebanon and Tunis to Palestine. Jihan El Tahri (Moderator) An Egyptianborn French filmmaker who began her career as a foreign correspondent covering Middle East politics for the Financial Times, Washington Post, and US News & World Reports. El- Tahri has since produced and directed several documentaries, including the trilogy Egypt's Modern Pharaohs (2016), which follows the lives of three successive presidents of Egypt: Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Al-Sadat, and Hosni Mubarak; The House of Saud (2004), which looks at Saudi “US relations through portraits of the kingdom's monarchs; and Behind the Rainbow (2008), which was made during the transition period of a newly independent South Africa. She is also a visual artist, where her work revisits moments of Independence, and decolonization.