Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse : Event : Slingshot Hip-Hop with Discussion

Slingshot Hip-Hop with Discussion

Tuesday Oct 14, 7:30PM @ 2640 (2640 St. Paul St.)

Slingshot Hip Hop braids together the stories of young Palestinians
living in the West Bank, Gaza and inside Israel as they discover Hip
Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by
occupation and poverty. From internal checkpoints and Separation Walls
to gender norms and generational differences, this is the story of
young people crossing the borders that separate them.

Director/Producer/Editor

Jackie Reem Salloum is a New York based artist and filmmaker. Drawing
on her Palestinian and Syrian roots, her pop-infused work focuses on
challenging the stereotypes of Arabs in the media. She has directed
several shorts exploring this issue, including Planet of the Arabs,
which received the International Editing Award at the 2005 CinemaTexas
Film Festival and was an official selection in that year's Sundance
Film Festival. After receiving her MFA from New York University,
Salloum began directing her first feature length documentary Slingshot
Hip Hop. Five years in the making it made it's premiere at the 2008
Sundance Film Festival-Documentary Competition. Salloum's work is also
the basis of a youth education program on Palestine/Israel, and she
frequently speaks at universities and conferences internationally.

Producer

Rumzi Araj, a Palestinian-American, has worked with Salloum on many of
her art and film projects and was an Associate Producer on the short
film Planet of the Arabs, a 2005 Sundance selection. He is currently
completing his law degree while pursuing his interest in film
production.

Producer/Editor/Visual Effects Supervisor

Waleed Zaiter is an Arab-American multimedia artist born in
Beirut,Lebanon. Growing up in the United States, he began his career
as a street artist in Boston. He currently resides in NYC where he
freelances as an animator.

Presented by Baltimore-Palestine Solidarity, and followed by a
discussion led by one of the featured artists, Abeer.

Website:

http://slingshothiphop.com/

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