Echoing the 2013 Academy Awards, when both an Israeli and a Palestinian film were nominated for the ‘Best Documentary’ Oscar, in 2021 we again have two films from our the-land-of-Green-Olive going head-to-head. This year, Farah Nabulsi’s The Present and Tomer Shushan’s White Eye are among the five films up for an Oscar in the ‘Best […]
– by Alexander Jones, Green Olive VP – Let’s begin with a big ‘thank you’, a giant ‘toda’ and a huge ‘shoukran’. Our Kickstarter campaign to fund the second film in our Homeland Insecurity series was an overwhelming success and with your support, we raised over US$11000. Keeping in mind there are a lot of […]
– by Yahav Zohar – ‘No’, said the policeman, ‘you can’t come through’. ‘But we live here, we need to get home’. ‘The whole area’s closed. If you wait here maybe I can get someone to escort you home in 15 or 20 minutes.’ It was cold, we were hungry, my daughter was crying. The […]
