HotHouse Wins Award at Sundance 2007The Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah came to a close yesterday with an Awards Ceremony where
HOTHOUSE by Israeli filmmaker Shimon Dohan received a Special Jury Prize in the World Cinema Documentary Competition! The film goes inside
Israel’s highest security facilities to witness everyday life of the nearly ten thousand Palestinian "security prisoners." World Cinema Documentary Competition jurors were Raoul Peck, Juan Carlos Rulfo, and Elizabeth Weatherford.
Labels: festival news, Israel, Palestine, prisons, Shimon Dotan
HOTHOUSE Selected to 2007 Sundance Film Festival
We're pleased to announce that
HOTHOUSE—the latest film from renowned Israeli filmmaker Shimon Dotan, whose films have been the recipients of the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival and numerous Israeli Academy Awards—has been selected to the
2007 Sundance Film Festival.
HOTHOUSE takes inside Israel's highest security prisons, explores the lives of Palestinian "security prisoners" (including Hamas and Fatah members of the Palestinian legistature) and the evolution of their society, inside and outside of prison, towards a democratic community.
Labels: festival news, Israel, Palestine, prisons, Shimon Dotan
Two New Releases Added This Week
Including Rare Chris Marker Short Films
We added two more titles to our website this yesterday, including CHRIS MARKER'S BESTIARY, a collection of five short films about animals. The other addition, HOTHOUSE, explores the evolution of Palestinian prisoner society into a democratic community and the impact of this shift on Palestinian politics outside of prison. This brings the total number of New Releases for September, 2006 to 39! This diverse collection of titles, the most we've ever added at once, has something for everyone who needs a audiovisual resource, or for anyone who just loves docs. Labels: Chris Marker, Israel, new releases, Palestine, prisons, Shimon Dotan
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