{"id":2,"date":"2008-08-18T17:52:03","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T00:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hpff.org\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2009-02-17T22:02:16","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T05:02:16","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blog.hpff.org\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About the Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

About the Film Festival<\/strong><\/p>\n

The second annual Houston Palestine Film Festival brings an honest and independent view of Palestine and its diaspora’s society, culture, and political travails through the art of film. This group of groundbreaking cinematic texts rise above the degrading stereotypes or reductively politicized depictions that are so familiar to Houstonians. A major goal of the Festival is to directly expose our local community to the perspective of artists as a first step toward circumventing the many government and media filters that pollute our understanding of Palestine and the wider region.<\/p>\n

Tickets<\/strong>
\n$7 each night for adults; $6 for students, senior citizens, children<\/p>\n

Commitee Members<\/strong>
\nAli Aoudi
\nOmar Afra
\nHadeel Assali
\nClaudia Baba
\nHana Elsahly
\nSousan Hammad
\nSary Joudah
\nJulia Nasser
\nIman Saqr
\nBrigitte Zaibak<\/p>\n

Advisory Board <\/strong>
\nErnest McMillian<\/a>
\nNicole Ballivian<\/a>
\nMustafa Habib<\/a>
\nSehba Sarwar<\/a>
\nWagih Aburish
\nMichael Peranteau
\nFady Joudah
\nRick Lowe
\nTanya Akpabio<\/p>\n

Sponsors<\/strong>
\nMarcel Khalife and NAGAM<\/a>
\nReem Renno
\n\"\"Museum of Fine Arts, Houston<\/a>
\n\"\"The Station Museum<\/a>
\nJerusalem Halal Meats
\nSweet Factory
\nMind Puddles<\/a>
\nMartha Claire Thompkins
\nWagih Abu-Rish
\nJoyce Salhoot
\n\"\"KPFT
\n<\/a>\"\"US-Arab Bilateral Chamber of Commerce
\n<\/a>Palestinians for Peace
\nArtist Rescue Mission
\n<\/a>Nabil Murad
\nRauf Diab
\n\"\"Minuteman Press<\/a>
\n\"\"Arab American Education Foundation <\/a>
\nADC-Houston
\nDania Dandashly
\nAhmed Rabie
\nSary Joudah
\nHana ElSahly
\n\"\"Cafe Layal Grill <\/a>
\n\"\"Fadis Mediterranean Grill<\/a>
\nHatem Saqr<\/p>\n

Supporters\/Friends<\/strong>
\n\"\"Voices Breaking Boundaries<\/a>
\n\"\"Free Press Houston<\/a>
\n\"\"DJ Sun<\/a>
\n\"\"Indymedia<\/a>
\nEthnographic Film Society, Rice University
\nShelby Hohl<\/a> (Graphic Designer<\/em>)
\nMatt Sonzala<\/a>
\nJason Price<\/a>
\nNidal el-Khairy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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