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Production
2024

Podium

IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund Grantee

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    Rachel Leah Jones, Director
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About the Project

Since 1948, when the State of Israel was established and its legislature — the Knesset — first convened, Palestinian lawmakers have served alongside Jewish ones. Were we to listen to a curated collection of 3-minute speeches delivered by these indigenous parliamentarians in the congress of their colonizers — like a relay race across the generations and against the political odds — what would we hear?

 

Project Team

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    Rachel Leah Jones

    An Emmy-winning nonfiction filmmaker whose trajectory in the field — from producer to director to editor to writer — has spanned two decades and three continents. Jones' work, which received top prizes from NATAS and APSA, has also been nominated by the PGA and the IDA, selected by the EFA, honored by Cinema Eye, and shortlisted for the Oscars. A two-time Sundance Festival and Institute alumna, her critically acclaimed films — ADVOCATE (2019); GYPSY DAVY (2012); ASHKENAZ (2007); 500 DUNAM ON THE MOON (2002) — have screened in festivals, been released in theatres, and broadcast around the globe.