[Jewish] Fwd: "Promises" at UMass, Tues 4/30

[Beth Deal]

--- Larry Goldbaum <goldbaum at admin.umass.edu> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 13:54:15 -0400
> From: Larry Goldbaum <goldbaum at admin.umass.edu>
> Subject: "Promises" at UMass, Tues 4/30
> To: hillel-fac at external.umass.edu, hillel-stu at external.umass.edu
> 
> 
> *****************************************
>   PROMISES...
>   A documentary film exploring the Middle East 
>   conflict through the eyes of its children
> 
>   Tuesday, April 30 at 7:00 pm
>   Campus Center Auditorium
>   UMass Amherst
> 
>   Discussion with filmmaker B.Z. Goldberg
>   following the film
> 
> ******************************************
> 
> Rather than focusing on hard news and political events, this
> award-winning
> film looks at the Palestinian-Israeli conflict by drawing viewers
> into the
> hearts and minds of its children. 
> 
> The film focuses on seven Palestinian and Israeli children living in
> Jerusalem and the nearby Deheishe refugee camp.  Each child offers
> dramatic, emotional, and sometimes hilarious perspectives on issues
> that
> lie at the heart of the Middle East conflict. The children in
> PROMISES are
> between the ages of 9 and 13, an age group that rarely speaks for
> itself.
> Neither as self-conscious as teen-agers nor as polite as adults, they
> communicate without self-censorship. Although they live no more than
> 20
> minutes apart, the children are locked in separate worlds. PROMISES
> explores the boundaries that lie between these children and tells the
> story
> of a few who dared to cross the lines to meet their neighbors.
> 
> Since its premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival last
> year,
> PROMISES has been garnering audience and critical acclaim worldwide.
> The
> film made history at Rotterdam as the first documentary in 30 years
> to win
> the prestigious Canal Audience Award (surpassing Crouching Tiger,
> Hidden
> Dragon).  In the U.S., PROMISES won the Audience Award and the Grand
> Jury
> Award for Best Documentary at the San Francisco Film Festival, and it
> received an Academy Award nomination for Best Feature Documentary. 
> 
> Free and open to the public
> 
> Sponsored by the UMass Office of Jewish Affairs and the Campus
> Activities
> Office
> 
> For more information visit our website:   
> www.umass.edu/jewish
> or call 413-545-9642
> 
> 
>  ***************************************************
>   Larry Goldbaum, Director
>   Office of Jewish Affairs
>   University of Massachusetts           (413) 545-9642
>   210 Middlesex House                        
> goldbaum at admin.umass.edu
>   Amherst, MA 01003                          
> http://www.umass.edu/jewish
>  ***************************************************
> 
> 


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