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Carolina
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| A Personal Statement The resistance of the Palestinians constitutes a significant phenomenon that a lot of people do not comprehend, because they try to understand this phenomenon though the lens of the mass media. The majority of these media have been empowered by the word, and by the image, and in turn have determined their significance. For these media, the Palestinians are not people capable of giving their lives in order to repossess their land. Rather they are terrorists, criminals, suicide bombers. This is the form of reasoning that the mass media tries to submit to the world, within an ideological framework of panic. The
explanation as to why I made this film, is in order to show Palestinians as
humans - in their desire to be free, in their wish for justice like everybody else in the world. For more information, visit the the Press page to read a full interview with Carolina Rivas. |
After studying film and photography in London (1982-1985), Daoud worked as a documentary film editor in Britain, where he cut numerous feature documentaries for Channel Four Television and the BBC.
In October 1995, Daoud made his first visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he worked in the humanitarian industry during the Balkan wars and subsequent reconstruction periods - at first in Bosnia and later in Kosovo and Macedonia.
In 1997 Daoud started work on a collection of political posters from the Bosnian War period. A book featuring this collection: Evil Doesn't Live Here: Posters from the Bosnian War by Daoud Sarhandi was published in New York and London in 2001.
Daoud moved to Mexico in 2002, from where he has been a regular contributor to Eye magazine - a London-based visual communication journal. In Mexico, a series of articles on Palestine by Daoud Sarhandi was published at Proceso, La Jornada and Tinta Seca.
Between 2002 and 2004 Daoud worked with Mexican graphic designer Gabriela Rodríguez.
In early 2004 Daoud made his first trip to the West Bank in order to interview Palestinian artists. He returned with Carolina Rivas later the same year to film The Colour of Olives.
Daoud currently runs Creadores Contemporáneos with Carolina Rivas. Daoud and Carolina are currently developing a feature fiction film which they plan to shoot in Mexico in 2009.
Daoud Sarhandi
Photo (above):
C. Rivas
| A Personal Statement My long-distance concern with Palestine started early; when I was only five years old my father took me on a demonstration against the 1967 occupation of Palestinian territories: the so-called "Six Day War" that for Palestinians has yet to end. My second indelible memory related to Palestine is from 1982, when I awoke to news detailing the massacres in Shatila and Sabra Palestinian refugee camps, in Lebanon; these atrocities were perpetrated by Lebanese Christian militias supported by the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces. It wasn't until 2004 that I finally got the chance to visit Palestine: I spent two months in Ramallah interviewing Palestinian artists and writers. And one day I got a phone call from a friend asking me if I could interpret for someone called Carolina Rivas. Apparently, I was told, she was from my adopted country: Mexico. I feel a deep sense of satisfaction that I could help Carolina realise her initial idea: an idea that became The Colour of Olives. It is a film that expresses profoundly and sincerely the struggle and endurance of ordinary Palestinian people. Daoud Sarhandi For more information, visit the the Press page to read a full interview with Daoud Sarhandi. |
