Another Side of Peace by Ellen Frick and Gretchen Burger

Roni Hirshenzon is a 60-year-old Israeli man who has suffered as much as any parent can imagine. Both of his sons died at the age of 19 as a direct result of the conflict in the region. Putting hatred and anger aside, Roni co-founded the Parents Circle, a support group for bereaved Israeli and Palestinian families. Another Side of Peace follows Roni's efforts to reach reconciliation and to come to terms with the deaths of his sons. He works with his Palestinian partners to connect with other bereaved families in Israel and the Palestinian Territories. Their message is simple: No More Death. Another Side of Peace provides a provocative and intimate look at the human side of the conflict, and the healing power of communication and reconciliation.

“We found Another Side of Peace to be accessible to diverse audiences, including those unfamiliar with the history and details of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict… The film…show(s) that it is possible to choose reconciliation over revenge.”
Patricia Boiko, MD, Physicians for Social Responsibility

“Another Side of Peace is enormously moving. My colleagues and I intend to use the film as an important teaching tool.”
Cecile Andrews, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Seattle University

PBS Broadcast
Global Peace Film Festival
Toronto Jewish Film Festival

60 minutes/VHS/DVD
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Lexi Leban and Lidia Szajko's Girl Trouble, a portrait of girls in the juvenile justice system, won the National Council on Crime and Delinquency's 2005 Pass Award for reporting on criminal justice issues. GIRL TROUBLE screens this spring at the Chicago-Cook County Probation Department, the Portland Maine Women's Film Festival and at the National Juvenile Justice Network in Washington, D.C.

Still Doing It: The Intimate Lives of Women Over 65, Deirdre Fishel's film about the sex lives of older women, won the 2005 Margaret E. Condon Memorial Award, honoring “fresh perspectives on the aging experience". As part of the award the film will be screened with a panel discussion in Chicago on April 14th. . For more information call 773-442-5845 or e-mail mtakahashi@neiu.edu. Still Doing It also won an honorable mention at the Silver Images Film Festival, which will be held April 13 at the Cultural Center in Chicago.

Jonathan Skurnik's film Spit It Out, about a stutter's journey to wholeness, won honorable mention at the Picture This Film Festival in Canada.

The new website for Tony Silver's Style Wars, the “Holy Grail of hip hop movies,” won the top prize for Film/TV websites at the SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin. Check it out at http://www.stylewars.com

Joan Mandell's Tales From Arab Detroit, Voices in Exile and Gaza Ghetto have screened at the University of Miami, Kent State-Stark campus and Swords and Plowshares Art Gallery in Detroit. Joan has just completed four videos for the permanent exhibition at the Arab American National Museum to open in Dearborn, Michigan on May 5.

Pam Walton's Liberty: 3 Stories About Life & Death recently screened at the Lesbian Cancer Care Initiative in New York City and on LOGO, MTV's new gay cable channel. Liberty will screen April 28 at the Newport Beach Film Festival at the Orange County Museum of Art. For tickets & info: http://www.newportbeachfilmfest.com

Beverly Seckinger's Laramie Inside Out, screened recently at The National Gay & Lesbian Task Force Creating Change conference in St. Louis and the Phoenix Regional Conference of University Residence Halls. LARAMIE will screen at the National Men's Studies Association Conference in April. In May, it will screen at Oregon State University in Corvallis.

Faye Lederman's film The New Old Country will screen in the Jewish Film Festival in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on April 12 http://www.tuscarts.org. Faye has recently presented numerous screenings/discussions of The New Old Country and Women of the Wall on campuses including Penn State, Rutgers, Yale, Cornell, and College of New Rochelle.

Rick Goldsmith's Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press, about America's legendary press critic, kicked off the Independent Media Film Festival and Discussion in San Luis Obispo, California in January. Rick's Everyday Heroes, about AmeriCorps volunteers, was featured at the opening plenary of the annual meeting of the National Association of Community Health Centers in San Diego in February.

Robert Richter, director of Hungry for Profit, Do Not Enter: The Visa War Against Ideas, and many other films, is now at work on a new film remembering the sixtieth anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, in the context of today's nuclear proliferation.

Susan Stern, director of Barbie Nation, has a new film, The Self-Made Man, which explores the controversial issue of the “right-to-die” through the story of her father, solar energy pioneer Bob Stern. The Self-Made Man will air on PBS's P.O.V. show on July 26. Watch for it to join the New Day collection.

Jenny Cool, whose New Day film Home Economics takes an anthropological look at suburbia, continues her work on American culture this summer with a grant to study Internet history at ECHO, George Mason University's Center for Exploring and Collecting History Online.

Daddy & Papa, Johnny Symons' Emmy-nominated documentary about gay men raising kids, will screen in documentary retrospectives in Madrid and Minneapolis this spring.

Heather Courtney's new film, Letters From the Other Side, about immigration from the perspective of the women and communities left behind in Mexico, won an ITVS LInCS grant for post-production, and a Latino Public Broadcasting grant for outreach. In March, Heather, director of Los Trabajadores/The Workers spoke on a panel on Latino Filmmaking at the South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival.

Andrea Leland, director of The Garafuna Journey, about the thriving Garifuna culture of Belize, was invited by The Garifuna Foundation to come to the West Indies, where Garifuna culture was suppressed. Garifuna Journey was received with great emotion there, and Andrea has now begun to videotape the Carib/Garifuna community on St. Vincent, the West Indies.

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