"The
Art of Screen Writing"
Saturday & Sunday, November 20
& 21, 2004
 |
A Conference for Screenwriters
source: Liverpool John
Moores University |
The purpose of the conference is to help plant the seeds of an international
network for people interested in any aspect of film. We will provide film
producers, writers, directors and scholars the opportunity to present
their contributions (books, films, ideas) to this developing film community.
Fiction and documentary films by American, IRAQI, Pakistani and Palestinian
screen writers and directors will be screened on Saturday, November
20 at 6 PM and all day Sunday, November 21.
Join us and be part of this unique conference.
Date & Time: Saturday, November
20, 2004 10 AM - 4 PM; Sunday (see below)
Location: University of Massachusetts
UMASS/ Boston , Media Auditorium, Healey Library, Lower Level (LL) directions
Parking is available at UMASS for
$6 per day.
Registration Deadline: Must Be
Received by November 16
Regular Registration: $95 (including
breakfast and lunch); $80 for INEAS members, National Writers Union
(NWU) members & UMASS Students
Conference Registration Fee includes admission to two documentaries.
See movie list and additional information below.
Make check payable to "INEAS"
Mail with your registration form to:
Screen Writing Conference
Institute of Near Eastern & African Studies (INEAS) P.O. Box 425125
Cambridge, MA 02142 USA
Underwriting and donations for the conference are welcome and appreciated.
Sunday Films & Panel Discussion
Fiction Films (Open to The Public)
The Olive Harvest
Screenwriter & Director: Hanna
Elias
Upon his release from an Israeli prison, older brother Mazen
( Mazen Saade ) develops romantic feelings for his childhood friend,
Raeda ( Raeda Adun ). However, Raeda is already engaged to Mazen's younger
brother Taher ( Taher Najeeb ), their love kept a secret because of
the tradition for the eldest brother to wed first. More than a mere
love story, The Olive Harvest , explores the dynamics of human relationships
and the relation between human and land.
Time: Sunday, November 21st @ 1:00
PM
Location: Snowden Auditorium, Weatley
Building, at UMASS/Boston
Donation: $7
To be followed immediately by a panel discussion
(details below)
Beautiful Kid
Screenwriter: Michael
Carty
Producer: Michael
Carty
Award-Winning filmmakers, (Screenwriter) and Patrick McCullough
(Producer) will be on hand for an informative Q&A after the screening
of their film,
Beautiful Kid, winner of Best Actor and Best Supporting
Actor at the Method Fest in Hollywood which celebrates breakout independent
film. "Beautiful Kid" is about three friends growing up in the
Irish pubs of the Bronx. Now in their mid-20's, working all day and partying
all night, their lives begin to spiral out of control. The film centers
on Sean, an Irish-American auto mechanic who finds himself at a crossroads,
torn between his allegiances to his friends, family, addictions and love.
Time: Sunday, November 21st @ 5:30
PM
Location: Snowden Auditorium at UMASS/Boston
Donation: $7
Baghdad . . . in Four Days
Screenwriter & Director: Wafaa'
Al-Natheema
Produced to chronicle her journey to Baghdad in November, 2003,
Wafaa' follows the activities and perspectives of Iraqis and the effect
of the US/UK war and occupation on Iraqi life and culture with a highlight
on the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra and the Music & Ballet
School of Baghdad.
Time: Sunday, November 21st @ 10:30
AM
Location: Snowden Auditorium, Weatley
Building, at UMASS/Boston
Donation: $5 (FREE for Conference
registrants)
Film to be followed by Q/A period with Wafaa'.
A 10-minute demo of Wafaa's upcoming documentary "The
Other Arabs" (a work in progress), will be viewed following the
Q/A period.
Nazrah: A Muslim Woman's Perspective
Screenwriter: Maliha
Masood
Director: Farah
Noushen
Western notions of Muslim women remain rooted in either the
nineteenth-century biases of "Orientalism" or gloomy clichés
of oppression and backwardness. The allegedly liberal mass media has
been often an instigator of ill-informed imagery. This makes it more
important than ever to question one-sided viewpoints that depict women
in the Islamic world as monolithic victims without a voice. Nazrah presents
a stimulating discussion by Muslim women and their perspective of life,
religion, love, independence, work and will power.
Time: Sunday, November 21st @ 11:30
AM
Location: Snowden Auditorium, Weatley
Building, at UMASS/Boston
Donation: $5 (FREE for Conference
registrants)
Forget Baghdad
Screenwriter & Director: Samir
Documenting the perspective and struggle of Iraqi Jews as
they narrate their memoirs about their lives in Iraq and later growing
up and working in Israel or the West. This unique documentary is sure
to provoke discussion. Winner of the Critics Week Prize, International
Film Festival of Locarno (2002) and of The City of Zurich Film Award
(2002).
Time: Sunday, November 21st @ 11:30
AM
Location: Snowden Auditorium, Weatley
Building, at UMASS/Boston
Donation: $5 (FREE for Conference
registrants)
Panel Discussion
(Open to The Public)
Filling The Void: Missing Genre, Asian-Muslim
films for the American audience
Panelists: Jacqueline
Romeo & Joachim Martillo
Moderator: Wafaa'
Al-Natheema
Time: Sunday, November 21 @ 2:35
PM (to 3:25 PM)
Location: Snowden Auditorium, Weatley
Building, at UMASS/Boston
Jacqueline Romeo is an adjunct faculty member at Emerson
College where she teaches theatre history and dramatic literature. Recently,
she performed at LaMama in New York City in Caliban Remembers: a Balinese
Tempest. She is, also, in the midst of finishing her dissertation at
Tufts University entitled: The Making of an American Stereotype: the
Origins of the Comic Coolie in Frontier Melodramas.
Joachim Martillo runs a Boston-area hi-tech firm and
has been doing business with Israeli firms since 1990. After 1993 he
believed in the Oslo process and began to do on-site work in Israel
and the Occupied Territories. The attempt to understand the disconnect
lead him to study US popular culture and in particular Hollywood. To
balance Hollywood's steady stream of Zionist propaganda and disinformation,
Martillo has written a Hollywood-style Palestinian-based screenplay
targeting the American public, and he is working on a sequel.
