[HCCN] Eyewitness Gaza, Friday Blue Hill

[Judith Robbins]

Eyewitness Gaza, a documentary directed by Tom Jackson and based upon the
photos of Skip Schiel.
Brief reviews follow.

Director Tom Jackson will present his film and provide insight into the life
of Palestinian youth under occupation.

AT BLUE HILL LIBRARY, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, 7 P.M.
PENINSULA PEACE & JUSTICE FILM SERIES

>From Tom¹s blog:
Here is the crew for the Gaza end of production on the documentary being
made about the situation there through the lens of photographer Skip Schiel.
Hesham (boom), Jozef (camera), Adham (field director)



In Eyewitness Gaza, Skip conveys his personal observations on events in
Gaza, the complexities and consequences of action and reaction at the
military and governmental level and its affects on real people. The video
graphically depicts the emotional as well as physical affects of violence
and offers hope in statements from young people about their commitment to
non-violence. Sadly, it also describes how opponents of a peaceful approach
discourage such actions. It is a compelling insight into the situation in
Gaza.
‹Joan Raducha, American Friends Service Committee, Madison Wisconsin,
September 2011
 
Skip Schiel has been documenting the Palestinian and Israeli reality through
photographs and journal postings since 2003‹work with a better feel for the
detailed texture of life in Gaza and the West Bank than any appearing in US
media. Schiel spends time where most journalists dare not tread, amidst
ordinary Palestinians, sharing in the dangers and frustrations of their
lives.
His work has been invaluable for my own. As a writer for a Buddhist
publication whose parents were victims of the Holocaust, I try to convey a
view of the conflict that differs from the US media's, which obfuscates the
injustices and sufferings inflicted on the Palestinians by Israel. Through
his portraits of Palestinian men, women, and children striving to maintain
ordinary routines despite harassment and attacks by Israel's military, Skip
reveals to us the true face of Palestinians.
‹Annette Herskovits, Consulting Editor, Turning Wheel, the Journal of the
Buddhist Peace Fellowship
 

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