SLINGSHOT HIP HOP recently won:

“Jury Prize” Festival Cinéma et Politique de Tours, Paris, France
“Silver Hanoman Prize” JAFF film festival, Indonesia
“Best Mediterranean Film” Granada Festival Cine del Sur, Spain
“Audience Award: Best Documentary” Cairo Refugee Film Festival, Egypt
“Audience Award: Best Film” Cairo Refugee Film Festival, Egypt
“Most Anticipated Film” Cairo Refugee Film Festival, Egypt
“Audience Award: Best Documentary“ Films de Femmes, France
“Audience Award: Best Film“ DOX BOX Film Festival, Syria
“Audience Award: Best Film“ Beirut International Film festival, Lebanon
“Best Director” Beirut International Film festival, Lebanon
“The Festival des Libertés Award” Festival des Libertés festival in Brussels, Belgium
“Audience Award: Best Film“ Arabian Sights Film Festival/Washington DC International Film Festival
“Audience Award: Best Film“ Toronto Palestine Film Festival
Top 3 Finalist for the IDFA- “DOC U” Competition
Nominated for the Sundance Film Festival 2008 – “Documentary Competition”

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Nov 19-29 Belgium “FILM FESTIVAL OF ATTAC”

Nov 22 & 24 ALFILM Arab Film Festival, Berlin

Nov 21-28 Tallinn, Estonia Children and Youth Film Festival “Just Film”

Nov 23-27 IDFA for kids, Amsterdam

Dec 2-13 Paris, France “What can cinema do?”

Dec 5 Edinburgh, Scotland @ Filmhouse

Dec 14-22 Tokyo Univ of Foreign Studies, Japan

Slingshot Hip Hop had its NY premiere on April 5th and 6th at the 2008 New Directors/New Films festival. It was presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art. We had a great time and the crowd was awesome and both screenings were sold out! Abeer was there along with many of the people who worked on the film.

MoMA Screening


Lincoln Center Screening

Check out the March issue of VIBE magazine!
Article on Slingshot Hip Hop by Harry Allen

(click on image to read article)

Palestinian Hip Hop made it’s big screen debut at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. DAM, Abeer and Mohammed Al-Farra (of Palestinian Rapperz) flew out to attend the festival and spoke at the end of all six of the sold out screenings. The emcees rocked a number of live shows during the week, energizing the crowd on every occasion. Click here to see some of the photos from the week:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23302433@N04/sets/72157603821045265

We were also lucky to collaborate with the multi-talented NY based crew, Graffiti Research Lab, throughout the week. They’ve posted a video recap of Sundance exploits at their site:

http://www.graffitiresearchlab.com/

Despite our best efforts, three of our featured emcees – Mahmoud Shalabi from Akka, Kan’aan, and Mezo from Gaza – were denied visas by the US embassy in Israel and could not join us at Sundance. They were sorely missed.