The FILMS are online

 Please check out the output of this whole process and feel free to add your comments.

https://vimeo.com/109926791

THE END

Every story has an end: this one has a happy ending because three films between 5 and 8 minutes have been created in a three weeks period. Three little stories of Battir full of meaning and understatement. Fatema Owainah found herself involved in this story which she'll be in charge to keep on going.

A full Gopro equipment has been entrusted to the local partner in order that the workshop can continue. AVS4You the editing program on which we worked, has been installed on the Battir Eco museum PC. Now what's necessary to do is raising funds to pay Fatima's wages as the responsible for the workshop.

Tomorrow we will show the result of the workshop and it's very likely that a lot of youngsters will ask for more! We've been aware from the start of the necessary sustainability of the project. Let's hope we find the means to make it.

In the meantime, here are some snapshots from the films:

THE THREE SHOOTINGS HAVE BEEN COMPLETED

Girl's group # 1: Niveen, Tasneem, Raneem, Ghazal and Raya completed their own shooting with interviewing Wisam OWINEH, junior manager at the Ecomuseum. He's the one who develops projects with partners and guide the visitors on the hiking trails. He's been asked by Niveen to talk about the Battir Ecomuseum concept and why there's nothing to see inside the museum like ancient photos of Battir he though can comment as a specialist.

The following day was dedicated to complete the Boy's shooting: Ala, Ahmad, Nagi, Ibraheem, Ameer and Waleed were on the starting blocks and even if we had to do some retakes, they were patient and focused.
We first met Ala's grand father - a former mathematics teacher - and Ala asked him about Battir irrigation system and how he lived the Nakba in Battir. A beautiful moment.

Yesterday was the second group of girls'turn. They had fixed everything with ATIDAL one of the councellers in the village council of Battir. She has inherited several olive fields all located in the buffer zone, beyond the railway track that separates palestinian from israelian territories. Her problem is that she has a long and dangerous way to go to reach them. Ghazal did the interview and filmed a few shots along with Razan, Sandy Dina and Jasmine.

We are now ready for phase 3, the editing itself.

BOYS' TURN

Yep. The boys' first shooting has been a lot of fun has you can imagine watching this photo taken from a special shot from the Battir's spring. We can assure that no harm has been done to any camera of any sort :-)

FIRST SHOOTING

Yesterday was an important step forward in the process since the two groups of girls had to finish their script. The one on picking olives and resistance will be very demanding in terms of logistic: they'll have to ask the participation of a family who will go to their olive field by a road that's blocked  before they can get to it.

The other group will make a film about Battir and its ecomuseum. Wisam who's used to hike with groups of visitors was precisely about to take one of them on trail 1. We then decided to film their depature and here's a  photograph taken from this very first shooting of this group.

TESTING AND PRACTISING

The second session for boys was dedicated to testing the tools and practising the art of interviewing. Everyone invests himself and utterly, here are their first try:

https://vimeo.com/107791290

A FEW SNAPSHOTS

Courtesy of the talented Fatima Owineh, here are a few photographs from the second session with the boys.

Please feel free to let a comment on this blog in whatever language you prefer. Thanks.