Encounter Point

Julia Bacha Co-script writer and editor of the documentary Control Room (2004), on Al Jazeera, the Arab television broadcasters. Born in Brazil, she went to New York in 1998 to study history and politics at Columbia University. In the course of her studies, she became interested in documenting life in the Amazon and in the mountains of Cuba and Jamaica. She was assistant to Bruno Barreto in O Casamento de Romeu e Julieta (2005). Ronit Avni Founder and director of Just Vision, a non-profit organization endeavoring to persuade Palestinians and Israelis to live in peace. She has co-produced short films on video in collaboration with filmmakers from Senegal, the United States, and Brazil working for Peter Gabriel´s human rights organization Witness. She wrote and produced a documentary, Rise, with the Afghanistan Revolutionary Women´s Association, awarded prizes in festivals in South Korea and Canada. Encounter Point was awarded the Prize for Best Documentary at the San Francisco Festival.

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA