Youth for Environment

Main applicant: Young Palestinian Filmmakers
Partners: Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre / Cinema Jenin
Implementation: Palestine
Project duration: February – August 2016
Project code: 01-01133

youth for environment

Twelve young filmmakers from the Palestinian West Bank will meet, to receive intensive training in documentary filmmaking. These films will focus on environmental issues: lack of recycling awareness, pollution of groundwater, the need for rehabilitation of the sewage system, water resources for farmers, and other problems. The results will be six short documentaries that will be screened on different locations. The screening will be followed by an open debate involving as Palestine citizens in further discussion on environmental issues. The goal is enhancing the role of cinema education in the cultural and social development and highlighting the environmental issues in Palestine.

This project is led by Young Palestinian Filmmakers, a nongovernmental organization based in Ramallah, dedicated to strengthen young cinema in Palestine; in partnership with Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre, from Ramallah, which uses cultural practice as a tool for artistic growth in the community; and the Cinema Jenin dedicated to activating the cultural life in Palestine through the screenings of daily films and hosting artistic performances in the fields of theatre, music and dance.

Links:

Young Palestinian Filmmakers:

www.youngfilmmakers.ps

https://www.facebook.com/YPFMS/

Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre:

http://www.sakakini.org 

Cinema Jenin:

http://www.cinemajenin.org/

https://www.facebook.com/cinemajenin/?fref=ts

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Photo by Young Palestinian filmmakers society.