Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Roadshow is proud to announce its support for Just Vision and their critically acclaimed new movie Budrus. By telling inspiring stories that aren't making the nightly news, Just Vision brings power and legitimacy to thousands of Palestinians and Israelis working for nonviolent solutions to the conflict.
Just Vision's strategy is to create award-winning media in order to cross borders, reach people around the globe and bring attention to peace builders and nonviolence leaders whose impact and example have been conspicuously absent in coverage of the conflict. Just Vision is led by a Palestinian, Israeli, North and South American team based in Jerusalem, Washington DC and NYC.
Just Vision is releasing a feature documentary film, Budrus, about a Palestinian community organizer who unites all Palestinian political factions along with Israelis in a Gandhian struggle to save his village from destruction by Israel’s Separation Barrier. When his teenage daughter, Iltezam, organizes a women’s contingent, they move to the frontlines and unleash a nonviolent movement that has inspired similar efforts in towns and villages across the West Bank and East Jerusalem that is still gaining ground today. In an action-filled documentary with archival footage of this movement from its infancy, Budrus shines a light on the work of people who choose nonviolence and persistence to confront a threat yet remain virtually unknown to the world. Given Iltezam’s prominence in the film, Budrus will also encourage audiences to explore the role and potential power of women in collective struggle and in conflict resolution. Budrus includes diverse voices, from the leaders of the movement to the Israeli border police and army officers stationed in the village at that time. Budrus premiered at the Dubai International Film Festival in December 2009. In a keynote address immediately following the screening, HM Queen Noor of Jordan praised the film, stating that Budrus: "Gives an enormous amount of hope... It's a story which will have an impact and can help bring [about] change... There are so many people who will watch the film for whom the stereotypes they've had will be destroyed or at least eroded concerning different sides of that conflict or divide."
For more information on Just Vision visit www.justvision.org.
For more information on Budrus visit www.budrusthemovie.com or download this PDF.
Just Vision's strategy is to create award-winning media in order to cross borders, reach people around the globe and bring attention to peace builders and nonviolence leaders whose impact and example have been conspicuously absent in coverage of the conflict. Just Vision is led by a Palestinian, Israeli, North and South American team based in Jerusalem, Washington DC and NYC.
Just Vision is releasing a feature documentary film, Budrus, about a Palestinian community organizer who unites all Palestinian political factions along with Israelis in a Gandhian struggle to save his village from destruction by Israel’s Separation Barrier. When his teenage daughter, Iltezam, organizes a women’s contingent, they move to the frontlines and unleash a nonviolent movement that has inspired similar efforts in towns and villages across the West Bank and East Jerusalem that is still gaining ground today. In an action-filled documentary with archival footage of this movement from its infancy, Budrus shines a light on the work of people who choose nonviolence and persistence to confront a threat yet remain virtually unknown to the world. Given Iltezam’s prominence in the film, Budrus will also encourage audiences to explore the role and potential power of women in collective struggle and in conflict resolution. Budrus includes diverse voices, from the leaders of the movement to the Israeli border police and army officers stationed in the village at that time. Budrus premiered at the Dubai International Film Festival in December 2009. In a keynote address immediately following the screening, HM Queen Noor of Jordan praised the film, stating that Budrus: "Gives an enormous amount of hope... It's a story which will have an impact and can help bring [about] change... There are so many people who will watch the film for whom the stereotypes they've had will be destroyed or at least eroded concerning different sides of that conflict or divide."
For more information on Just Vision visit www.justvision.org.
For more information on Budrus visit www.budrusthemovie.com or download this PDF.
