NAILA AND THE UPRISING
- Feature
- 2017
- 75 Minutes
- Palestinian Territory, Occupied, United States
- Language: Arabic and Hebrew (modern) and English
When a nation-wide uprising breaks out in 1987, a woman in Gaza must make a choice between love, family and freedom. Undaunted, she embraces all three, joining a clandestine network of women in a movement that forces the world to recognize the Palestinian right to self-determination for the first time.
Director: Julia Bacha
Photos
Cast and Crew
Animation: Sharron Mirsky, Dominique Doktor
DOP / Camera: Talal Jabari
Editor: Flávia De Souza, Rebekah Wingert-Jabi
Sound: Judith Gruber-Stitzer, Issam Rishmawi
Producer: Rula Salameh, Rebekah Wingert-Jabi
Music: Tristan Capacchione
Director
Julia Bacha
Julia Bacha is a Peabody and Guggenheim award-winning filmmaker, media strategist, and the Creative Director at Just Vision, a nonprofit that highlights the power and reach of Palestinians and Israelis working to end the occupation and build a future of freedom, dignity and equality. Since graduating Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University, she has strategically used documentary film and multi-media to foster constructive conversations on some of the most divisive issues of our times.
Filmography: My Neighborhood (Director/Producer, 2012), Home Front (Producer/Writer/Executive Producer, 2011) Budrus (Director/Producer, 2009), Encounter Point (Co-Director/Writer/Editor, 2006)