[antiwar-van] Palestinian film night May 29
hkawas
hkawas at email.msn.com
Fri May 24 13:05:33 PDT 2002
Please publicize the following event as widely as possible.
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MAY 29th, Pacific Cinematique, 7:30 pm
An Evening of Palestinian Film by Mai Masri. Mai is a leading
Palestinian-American filmmaker and she has a significant body of work,
including a documentary on Hanan Ashrawi and Children of Fire
Frontiers of Dreams and Fears, 2001: Her new film follows the lives of
two young Palestinian women, one in Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon and the
other in Dheisheh camp near Bethlehem, and has already been well received at
the Montreal Film Festival and won several international awards.
Children of Shatila, 1998: Portrait of two Palestinian children growing up
in Beirut's Shatila camp.
Proceeds from the evening will go to a scholarship fund for Palestinian
refugee
children.
Sponsored by Canada Palestine Support Network www.canpalnet.ca
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