Fwd: invitation to a movie

[E. Wei]

From our friends at Act for Sudan - Elliot Vaisrub Glassenberg - Film Wed 11/8 at 8:30pm in Manhattan. Details below....

Dear Friends,

It is my pleasure to invite you to join me for the NY Premiere of "Desert Wounds", an award-winning film about African refugees in Israel, at the Other Israel Film Festival at JCC Manhattan this Wednesday, November 8, 2017 at 8:30pm co-presented by BINA, HIAS, Right Now and T'ruah.

The screening will be followed by a special panel disucussion with Director Nili Dotan, Adv. Asaf Weitzen, and myself, and moderated by Salem Pearce. 

For more information and tickets click here: https://goo.gl/9TBQny (use discount code BINAOI).

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1170160589750905 

Feel free to forward this invitation to others who may be interested.

I hope to see you there!

Elliot

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NY Premiere of Nili Dotan's DESERT WOUNDS

JCC Manhattan,

Wednesday, November 8, 2017 at 8:30pm

Co-presented by BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social Change, HIAS, Right Now: Advocates for African Asylum Seekers in Israel, and T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights.

Q&A PANEL to follow featuring Nili Dotan (Director), Adv. Asaf Weitzen (HIAS, Hotline for Refugees and Migrants) and Elliot Glassenberg (BINA & Right Now).

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FOR TICKETS: https://goo.gl/9TBQny

FACEBOOK EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/1170160589750905

FOR MORE INFO on The Other Israel Film Festival: www.otherisrael.org | www.facebook.com/OtherIsrael

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ABOUT THE FILM: DESERT WOUNDS (Israel / 2016 / 59 Minutes)

Winner, “Best Documentary”, Lady’s First Film Festival

Throughout the world, large groups of people continue to face oppression and discrimination due to religion and ethnicity. Each year, thousands migrate to other countries, uncertain of what may lie ahead, but desperately searching for better lives. With an international refugee crisis afflicting the entire globe, director Dotan follows the specific journeys of two Christian women from Sudan and Eritrea, who fleeing war, dictatorship, and religious persecution in their countries. Over a five-year period, they seek asylum in Israel, later in Uganda, attempting to build new lives while still remaining under the constant threat of deportation. They have no homes to which they can return, and their uncertain status has no end in sight. These specific stories stand in for a more universal tale of refugees, not only in Israel, and uncover the volatile political conversations throughout the entire world, including here at home. Watch the trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjDdYvjC_pA.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

NILI DOTAN (DIRECTOR)  graduated from Tel Aviv University School of Film and Television with a BFA and holds a Masters Degree in Cinema and Communications from Seminar Hakibutzim. Her films have been screened on Israeli TV and Channel Thirteen in the US. She has written several plays including The Old Man and I, which was the winner of Israel’s President Award. Nili also works as a freelance journalist and has taught screenwriting at Tel Aviv University.

ASAF WEITZEN is a human rights lawyer at the forefront of the struggle for the rights of refugees in Israel. For the last six years Asaf was Director of the Legal Department at the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants – Israel’s leading organization protecting the rights of refugees, migrant workers and victims of human trafficking. Asaf has lead high profile cases preventing illegal deportations and releasing hundreds of detainees held in Israel’s immigration detention centers. He was a leading attorney in the case resulted in three historical High Court rulings overturning the Anti-Infiltration Law. In 2016 Asaf secured status for Mutasim Ali - the first Sudanese asylum seeker to be recognized as a refugee in Israel.

ELLIOT VAISRUB GLASSENBERG is an American-Canadian-Israeli Jewish educator-activist. Elliot is a senior educator at The Kibbutz Movement and BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social Change and currently serves as the central shaliach (emissary) for Habonim Dror Olami in North America. Elliot is one of the leading activists for refugees in Israel, having led the Holot Refugee Seder, the Holot Project, and currently serves as co-chair of Right Now: Advocates for Asylum Seekers in Israel. Elliot holds a B.A. from McGill and an M.A. in Jewish Education from JTS.