The instant Barakat learned Corrie had been crushed to death by an Israeli-driven Caterpillar bulldozer, he began work on his documentary Rachel: An American Conscience. This documentary, released in 2005, offers rare footage of Rachel talking to a camera and describing Israeli human rights violations against a Palestinian civilian population.
Hazim Bitar is a Palestinian-Jordanian producer, writer, and director. He founded the Amman Filmmakers Cooperative, which serves as the launching pad for some of Jordan's leading independent filmmakers. Since its founding, the Amman Filmmakers Cooperative has provided cinema education to hundreds of Jordanians and Palestinians, mainly in disadvantaged areas.
Azza El-Hassan's work has been produced and shown by various international TVnetworks such as BBC, arte, YLE, ARD and many others. It has also been screened in film festivals and art venues around the world like, Yamamgata Documentary FilmFestival (Japan), International Film Festival IDFA (Holland), Lipzic (Germany)and many others.
Originally from Jaffa and El Ramleh, is a Canadian-Palestinian filmmaker. He was born in Kuwait in 1962. He received a BFA from Egypt's Cairo Institute of Cinema and an MFA in Film Production from Concordia University, Montreal/Canada.) He has made several documentaries and short fiction films preparing his first feature). El-Omari lives in Montreal.
Maryse Gargour was born in Jaffa. She has been a journalist and a producer at the Office de Radio Diffusion et de la Télévision Française in Beirut. She has worked at UNESCO in Paris, at the International Council for Cinema and Television, and has also been a freelance journalist for international television news services in Paris.
