Films by Filmmaker

Joan Mandell

Joan Mandell is a Detroit-based journalist and documentary filmmaker. She is currently researching a major veterans oral history project for the Arab American National Museum and filming a documentary on Detroit area beekeepers.

Her New Day documentaries are: Tales from Arab Detroit; Voices in Exile: Immigrants and the First Amendment; and Gaza Ghetto: Portrait of a Palestinian Family.

Joan Mandell has taught documentary film production/film studies and ESL at University of California/ Irvine, College for Creative Studies/Detroit, Birzeit University/Palestine and most recently aboard a ship travelling around the world with the University of Virginia/Semester-at-Sea. She was a Fulbright scholar, a Felton Scholar in Media Literacy and an affiliated fellow at UCLA's von Grunebaum Center for Near East Studies.

Joan co-founded Al Fajr news-weekly and served on the editorial board of Middle East Report for two decades. Contact Joan Mandell for speaking engagements, documentary research/production or to find out more about her films: I, Too, Sing America and One Million Postcards, and Arab American Road Movie. Her 9-11 Moments can be found at http://www.itvs.org/9.11/.