Аннотация

Ронит Авни и Джулия Бача

Ронит Авни:

Ronit Avni is the Founder and Executive Director of Just Vision, a non-profit that widens the influence of Palestinian and Israeli grassroots peace builders. She has co-produced short videos and online video advocacy features in collaboration with filmmakers in Senegal, Burkina Faso, the United States and Brazil while working for Peter Gabriel’s human rights organization, WITNESS. WITNESS advances human rights advocacy using video and communications technology. Ronit has trained non-governmental organizations from Honduras to the Gambia to produce videos as a tool for public education and grassroots mobilizing, as a deterrent to further abuse and as evidence before courts and tribunals. She wrote and produced a short documentary film, Rise, with the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. Rise premiered at Makor in Manhattan and screened at the Women’s Film Festival in Seoul, Korea, and at the GlobalVisions Film Festival in Canada. Excerpts from Rise were featured on PBS’s World At Large. She was among eight American-based recipients of the 2003-2005 Joshua Venture Fellowship for young Jewish social entrepreneurs. She was recently selected to receive the Auburn Seminary’s ‘Lives of Commitment’ Award. Ronit has lectured at American University, Concordia University, Minnesota University, Bard College, New York University, the New School and Vassar College. Ronit has written for Satya magazine and co-edited the book, Video for Change: A Guide for Advocacy and Activism (Pluto Press, UK), with staff from WITNESS. Ronit’s essay, “Inverting the Shame-Based Human Rights Documentation Model in the Context of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict,” was published in the spring 2006 edition of American Anthropologist. Ronit graduated with honors with a BA in Political Science from Vassar College. She received a Burnam Fellowship to intern at B’Tselem: the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. While abroad, Ronit volunteered for the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI). Ronit acquired a DEC in Professional Theatre Studies from Dawson College. She has directed plays for Show-Off and Threepenny Productions in Montreal. .

Джулия Бача:

Julia Bacha recently co-wrote and edited the critically acclaimed documentary Control Room (Magnolia Pictures, 2004), about Al Jazeera’s coverage of the latest war in Iraq, for which she was nominated to the 2005 Writer’s Guild of America Award. Control Room won the Grand Jury Prize at Full Frame Film Festival and was broadcast on BBC, Sundance Channel, HBO Latin America and many other networks around the world. Julia was the assistant editor for the Brazilian production Casamento de Romeu e Julieta by acclaimed director Bruno Barreto. She was also the editor of National Geographic’s Conjoined at the Head, and additional editor on the films Swimmers (Sundance 2005) and Room (Cannes Director’s Fortnight and Sundance 2005). Originally from Brazil, Julia came to New York in 1998 to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University. She wrote her thesis on Mohammmad Mossadegh, the Iranian Prime Minister who was removed from power in the early 1950’s in a CIA-orchestrated coup. Alongside her academic studies, she pursued her interest in documentary photography by portraying life in Cuba, Kashmir, the Brazilian Amazon and the Blue Mountains in Jamaica. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Columbia University and was awarded the 2003 Phi Betta Kappa Prize. Julia has spoken in numerous panels such as the New York Time's "War Documentaries" (Los Angeles, 2004), Aspen Film Festival's "The New Political Documentary" (Aspen, 2004), the United Nation's panel on Al Jazeera International (New York, 2005), Hot Docs Film Festival’s “Activism on Film” (Toronto, 2006), Sao Paulo Film Festival’s panel on “Understanding Between Cultures” (Sao Paulo, 2006), and the Dubai Film Festival’s “Operation Cultural Bridges” (Dubai, 2006). She is currently Just Vision's Producer and Media Director. .