ITVS announced that it has contracted with eight international documentary projects from its 2011 International Call as part of the Global Perspective Project. This year’s selections provide extraordinary access and insight into the daily lives and struggles of people who live in Uruguay, Iran, China, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Myanmar, and India.

The productions were selected through a competitive application process, which resulted in 476 submissions from 118 countries representing 72 languages.

All eight documentary projects are slated for eventual broadcast, including primetime slots on the Emmy® Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens, P.O.V., and the international series, Global Voices.

Check out the complete list of funded projects after the jump >>

Avant
Producers: Virginia Bogliolo, Pablo Ratto Director: Juan Andres Alvarez
After retiring as a professional dancer, Julio Bocca, one of the most famous ballet dancers on the international scene, accepts the challenge to direct a forgotten national ballet in an unfinished theatre in Uruguay. Avant explores the contrast between Bocca´s quest for excellence and the daily life of this company, set in changing scenery that frames the lives of dancers, workers, cleaners, and technicians.

Before The Revolution
Producer: Barak Heymann  Director: Dan Shadur
Before the Revolution, the untold tale of the Israeli community in Iran prior to the Islamic Revolution in 1979, is a suspense story about courage and hastiness, about greed and blindness, and about great dreams versus an impossible reality. And for one young Israeli family — the director of the film’s family — the last days in Tehran are also a private and hurtful story of a long-gone paradise, never to return.

Democrats
Producer: Henrik Veileborg  Director: Camilla Nielsson
Democrats is a film about the creation of a new constitution in Zimbabwe. The film follows two top politicians who have been appointed to lead the country through the reform process. The two men are political opponents, but united in the ambition to make history by giving the nation a new founding document that could give birth to a future Zimbabwe.

Fallen City
Producer: Lixin Fan Director: Qi Zhao
Fallen City follows the survivors of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake as they embark on a journey in search of hope, meaning, and identity. Zeroing in on three broken families, the film explores the hearts and minds of ordinary rural Chinese forced to restore their lives and the meaning of life in a world without their home and loved ones. A devoted father, a divorced older woman, and a runaway teenage boy — each on their own journey — become a collective image, struggling to find a new position in a new China torn between tradition and modernity.

In The Shadow Of The Sun
Producer: Brian Hill Director: Harry Freeland
Told over the course of four years, In The Shadow Of The Sun tells the intimate story of two very different members of a remote island’s albino community in Tanzania as a wave of brutal ritual killings targeting people with albinism sweeps their country. First there is Vedastus, a warmhearted teenage boy who cares for his terminally ill mother while struggling to find his own place in the world and a way back to school. Then there is Josephat, a strong willed advocate for people with albinism, who fights to unite his country and dreams of scaling the heights of Mount Kilimanjaro. As the killings escalate, Vedastus flees the island in search of safety while Josephat stands and faces the killings head on.

I Want To Cheer Up, Ltd.
Producer: Mette Heide Director: Kaspar Astrup Schröder
The complexity of happiness is at the center of this story about Ryuichi, the owner of a professional stand-in company that rents out fake family members and friends. At work he can finally be the perfect husband and father that he doesn’t know how to be at home.

Miss Nikki & The Tiger Girls
Producer: Jessica Douglas-Henry Director:  Juliet Lamont
The poorest nation in South East Asia, Myanmar has been ruled by a series of military dictatorships for many years. This documentary provides a rare opportunity to go behind the bamboo curtain and explore the lives of ordinary people living in this country through an intimate portrait of Myanmar’s first all-girl band The Tiger Girls.

When Hari Got Married
Producers/Directors: Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam
Hari, a young, but traditional taxi driver in Dharamsala, India, is getting married to a girl he has never met, but with whom he has fallen in love after many mobile phone conversations. Now, frantic preparations are afoot to make sure the wedding goes off without a hitch. Outspoken, opinionated, and funny, Hari grapples with nerves, heartburn, and mounting tension as the day of reckoning draws close.

The 2012 ITVS International Call Deadline is December 9, 2011.  For more information, click here >>

As Goes Janesville follows the lives of dislocated workers, business entrepreneurs and politicians from the Janesville, Wisconsin area to see how they reinvent their lives and the local economy to survive the loss of their century old GM plant in the larger economic downturn.

Watch an interview with Director/Producer Brad Lichtenstein after the jump >>

Part travel blog, part photo essay, part video diary, and part mobile application, 30 Mosques in 30 States is an original documentary experience developed by digital media producers Aman Ali and Bassam Tariq – two young Muslim Americans who set out to visit a different mosque in a different U.S. state for each of the 30 days of Ramadan. The two’s 13,000-mile route will essentially take them across the entire country before they end up back home in New York City. Through their journey, we learn about the first mosque built in the U.S. in the tiny town of Ross, North Dakota in 1929 as well as what life is like for Muslim Americans in Alaska.

There are an estimated 3 million to 4 million Muslims living in the United States – a number that is expected to double by the year 2030. Muslims in the U.S. come from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds including African Americans, South and East Asians, Europeans, Arabs, and East Africans. 30 Mosques in 30 States is a glimpse into the mosaic of Muslim life that can only be told with today’s new forms of digital storytelling. Join Aman and Bassam on their journey, here: http://30mosques.com/

30 Mosques in 30 States has already been generating a lot of buzz.  Check out these features from CNN, The Huffington Post, Boing Boing, and The Takeaway.

30 Mosques in 30 States is part of Diverse Muslim Voices, a multiyear media initiative to build awareness and improve understanding in the U.S. of diverse Muslim societies. Funding is provided by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art.

Brothers Hypnotic by filmmaker Reuben Atlas

Brothers Hypnotic follows the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, a Chicago-based brass group featuring the eight sons of legendary jazz trumpeter Phil Cohran, whose music ties the currents of jazz, funk, and hip-hop. Reuben Atlas’ film follows the brothers as they make their way on the streets of New York and in the music business, but with stardom on the horizon, they must test their father’s ideals against their own brotherly vision.

Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band by filmmaker Carol Bash

During an era when Jazz was the nation’s most popular music, Mary Lou Williams was one of its greatest innovators. As both a pianist and composer, she was a wellspring of daring and creativity who helped shape the sound of 20th century America. And like the dynamic, turbulent nation in which she lived, Williams seemed to re-define herself with every passing decade. From World War I through the Vietnam War, from the birth of jazz to the height of rock and roll, Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band, by filmmaker Carol Bash, follows a jazz icon who was determined to create in a world that could not see past her race or gender.

Join us in congratulating both filmmakers!

ITVS announced today that it, along with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, has made a significant investment in Half The Sky, a primetime television special and multi-platform project based on New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s widely acclaimed book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.

“This is a project that means the world to Sheryl and me, and represents 20 years of travel, research and writing. We are proud to partner with public television to bring awareness to what we see as the greatest moral challenge of our time,” said Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist and Pulitzer-prize winning author.

Diane Lane and Edna Adan, featured in Half the Sky in Somaliland (photo by Nicholas Kristof)

The two-part, four-hour broadcast will premier as a special presentation on Independent Lens in fall 2012 as a cornerstone of Women and Girls Lead, a multi-year engagement campaign led by ITVS to leverage the power of documentary storytelling to increase the leadership and development of women and girls worldwide.

Read the entire announcement here.

A Fragile Trust by Samantha Grant tells the dramatic story of Jayson Blair, a young reporter whose shocking lies dealt a serious blow to the New York Times and forced the entire media industry to take a closer look at ethics, diversity, affirmative action, and responsibility in journalism. From the frantic buzz of New York City to the solitude of the Texas desert, the film goes inside the heart of the scandal, to hear from the management at the Times as well as Blair himself.

How could this have happened? Why did Blair do it? And how can we take the lessons learned forward into the future of journalism? All of these questions and more are examined in A Fragile Trust, the first complete telling of this compelling and entertaining tale.

Check back in with BTB to hear more from filmmaker Samantha Grant and about the documentary A Fragile Trust.

Five years ago, the worst natural disaster ever to hit the United States struck southern Louisiana, forever altering the face of America’s most unique and freewheeling city, New Orleans. While the news media revisits the Crescent City to find out what has changed and what hasn’t, a team of filmmakers working with ITVS is documenting the real story of the resurrection of a metropolis with a long history of coming back from the dead with inimitable style.

Their documentary-in-progress Getting Back to Abnormal by former New Orleans residents, Louis Alvarez, Andrew Kolker, Peter Odabashian, and Paul Stekler, explores the state of New Orleans politics and culture five years after Hurricane Katrina.

Set against the backdrop of the 2009-2010 local political season, the election of the first white mayor in a generation, and the triumph of the city’s erstwhile worst NFL team, the Saints, Getting Back to Abnormal will frame its story via the city’s complicated and ever-present issues of race.

The film was one of several to receive Open Call funding from ITVS in the most recent round. At the producers’ orientation last month, filmmakers Andrew Kolker and Paul Stekler spoke about what New Orleans means to them and why it was important to get the story right.

Kaing Guek Eav or "Comrade Duch"

Much ado about the sentencing of Kaing Guek Eav — known by his Khmer Rouge nickname “Comrade Duch” — to 35 years in prison (to be reduced to 19 considering time served) on July 26 in Phnom Penh by a United Nations-led tribunal. The verdict and sentence shocked many Cambodians who remember Duch’s reign of terror as a remorseless prison chief in charge of torturing and murdering as many as 16,000 Cambodians on the orders of the notorious Pol Pot. Many Cambodians were angry that the sentence had not been harsher, given the horrific nature of the crimes.

Adrian Maben, director of a recently funded ITVS film called Comrade Duch, is currently in Phnom Penh to document the sentencing and the reaction to it. Maben has directed three previous films on the Khmer Rouge for ARTE.

Maben’s film-in-progress looks at Duch from all sides — from his days as a quiet mathematics teacher to a murderous barbarian, right up to today when Duch — a born-again Christian now — has acknowledged his role in the torture and murder of thousands of his countrymen and remains the only Khmer Rouge figure to show remorse or ask forgiveness.

Director Adrian Maben

Maben’s film will delve into questions about forgiveness and rehabilitation versus retribution and vengeance, and what it really means when we say “justice has been served.”

We’ll keep tabs on the film’s progress and hope to have an update from Maben soon!

We’re proud to announce the latest projects recently funded by ITVS. We look forward to working with each of the filmmakers to support their broadcast and continued effort to bring a diversity of programming to viewers.

Congratulations to all the filmmakers!

OPEN CALL

Wham! Bam! Islam!
by Isaac Solotaroff
Wham! Bam! Islam! follows one of the most intriguing stories to come out of the Middle East in recent memory: the creation of THE 99 — the first Muslim superheroes and brainchild of Kuwaiti Naif Al-Mutawa.  Following the story of THE 99’s creation and distribution throughout the Islamic world and Al-Mutawa’s emergence as a central figure in the raging debates over the role of religion and tradition in contemporary Muslim societies, Wham! Bam! Islam! is a powerful story about the challenges, risks and value of bridge building between Islam and the West at the dawn of the 21st century.
Co-production of ITVS

This Is Where We Take Our Stand
by Bestor Cram, Mike Majoros, and David Zeiger
This Is Where We Take Our Stand, conceived and shot as a verité production, tells the story of the multi-faceted struggle to organize Winter Soldier, a unique gathering of veterans and active duty soldiers.  The film weaves highly personal organizing experiences with four days of stunning testimony at the largest gathering of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.  The program concludes two years later with the disbanding of the army of anti-war veterans, struggling to move on with their lives back on the home front; some in disarray, some still on active duty, all changed by their commitments to serve their country.
Co-production of ITVS

Granito
by Pamela Yates, Peter Kinoy, and Paco de Onís
Granito is a story of destinies joined by Guatemala’s past, and how a documentary film from 1982, When the Mountains Tremble, becomes forensic evidence to help prove a genocide case against a military dictator.  In Granito, the characters sift for clues buried in archives of mind and place and historical memory, seeking to uncover a narrative that could unlock the past and settle matters of life and death in the present. Like a crime thriller where the narrative is revealed step by step, this epic film time-travels back and forth between present and past, uncovering evidence of massive crimes and bringing accountability to the present.
Co-production of ITVS

Dónde Están?
by María Teresa Rodríguez and Kathryn Pyle
Dónde Están reveals the journeys of three children, now adults, torn from their families during the war in El Salvador in the 1980s, who discover hope in unlikely places as they seek identity and justice. Jamie, adopted from El Salvador as an infant and raised in a Washington, DC suburb, searches for her birth family; Miguel, separated from his father, after an army attack killed his mother, illegally immigrates to the US to support his own child. Margarita’s mother was presumed murdered in a massacre and her four siblings, children at the time, were likely taken away by soldiers; she’s now an investigator for a human rights organization that reunites disappeared children with their families.
Co-production of ITVS

Soul Food Junkies
by Byron Hurt
Soul Food Junkies explores the health advantages and disadvantages of soul food, a quintessential American cuisine.  Soul Food Junkies explores the history and social significance of soul food to black cultural identity and its effect on African-American health, good and bad. Soul food will also be used as the lens to investigate the dark side of the food industry and the growing food justice movement that has been born in its wake.
Co-production of ITVS

The Waiting Room
by Peter Nicks
The Waiting Room, a cinema verité documentary, uses unprecedented access to go behind the doors of an American safety-net hospital fighting for survival.  Following a team of hospital executives, staff, and patients, the film tells the story of a diverse population battling their way through the seismic shifts in the nation’s health care system, while weathering the storm of a national recession.  It is a film about one hospital, its multifaceted community, and how our common vulnerability to illness binds us together as humans.
Co-production of ITVS

The Revolutionary Optimists
by Nicole Newnham and Maren Grainger-Monsen
Children are leading the way toward saving lives in the slums of Calcutta. Amlan Ganguly empowers children to become activists and educators, with powerful results. The Revolutionary Optimists follows him as he attempts to replicate his work in the brick fields outside the city, where children live and work in unimaginable conditions.
Co-production of International Medical Options and ITVS

EDF

The Interrupters
by Steve James
The Interrupters follows a lively group of men and women – most of them former gang leaders and ex-cons – trying to “interrupt” shootings, and protect their communities from the violence they themselves once employed.  The film will feature individual Interrupters, and observe the inner workings of the program, including their weekly roundtable meetings and street interventions. Along the way, The Interrupters will tell stories of personal redemption while taking viewers on a compelling observational journey into the stubborn, persistent violence that plagues American cities.
Co-production of Kartemquin Films for WGBH/Frontline and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) in association with RISE Films

Higher Ground
by Jon Shenk, Bonni Cohen, and Richard Berge
Higher Ground is a dramatic feature documentary that lifts the issue of global warming out of the theoretical and into the personal.  President Mohamed Nasheed is trying to save 385,000 people from drowning.  His nation of 1,200 low-lying islands, the Maldives, is sinking into the Indian Ocean as sea levels rise due to global warming.  Climate change experts say that some of the islands will be submerged within 20 years, threatening the lives of the largely impoverished inhabitants as well as inundating the lavish resorts that dot the islands. Nasheed’s unprecedented contingency plan is to move his entire population to a new homeland.  As he conducts serious discussions about this with Sri Lanka and Australia, Nasheed is doing all he can to prevent this looming disaster by trying to convince world leaders to halt global warming.
Co-production of AFTERIMAGE PUBLIC MEDIA and the Independent Television Service (ITVS), with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)

A Good Man
by Gordon Quinn, Bob Hercules, Joanna Rudnick and Keith Walker
A Good Man follows the Tony Award-winning choreographer Bill T. Jones in his attempt to tell the story of Abraham Lincoln through dance inspired by a commission from the Ravinia Festival.  The resulting work, “Fondly Do We Hope … Fervently Do We Pray,” will be performed in September of 2009 at the Festival as part of its “Mystic Chords of Memory” program in honor of Abraham Lincoln’s bicentennial.  The New York Times claims that Jones’s “portrayal of Lincoln is likely to scandalize as many people as it delights.”
Co-Produced by Kartemquin Films, ITVS, American Masters, Media Process Group, in association with Ravinia Festival

LINCS

Eating Alabama
by Andrew Grace
When a filmmaker, his wife, and their two friends embark on a year of local eating, they hardly imagine how much it will change their lives. The year-long experiment becomes a lifestyle, and they realize that eating locally isn’t just about the food, it’s about the place.  A disarmingly funny story about identity, family, community, agriculture, and the South, Eating Alabama is ultimately a film about why food matters.
Co-production of ITVS

Southern Belle
by Suzy Baer
Southern Belle is an insider’s look at the 1861 Athenaeum Girls’ School where young women from around the world signed up to become that iconic and romantic image of southern identity — the southern belle.
Co-production of ITVS and Nashville Public Television

INTERNATIONAL

Khadija’s Daughter
by Deepa Dhanraj
Fed up with the male-dominated Jamaats (traditional councils) of their community, Muslim women in Tamil Nadu have been using everyday smarts to resolve family law cases and reclaim the essential values of justice and equality they believe are central to their faith. This film explores their strategies of resistance and transformation – the way Khadija’s Daughters are redefining both the meaning and practice of Islam for women.
Co-production of ITVS International

Karla’s Arrival
by Koen Suidgeest
19-year old Sujeylin Aguilar and her newborn baby Karla live as part of a group of kids in a small park in Managua, Nicaragua as they struggle through the first year of the child’s life. The young mother makes three attempts to seek a stable life for the sake of her child, while embarking on a personal journey towards adulthood.
Co-production of ITVS International

Comrade Duch
by Adrian MabenComrade Duch tells the story of Kaing Guek Eav, alias “Duch,” a Jekyll and Hyde personality who began as a mathematics teacher then became the commandant of Tuol Sleng in Cambodia, responsible for the torture and murder of 14,000 prisoners. The film recounts his flight, conversion to evangelical Christianity, and how he was finally brought to justice before an international tribunal.
Co-production of ITVS International

Putin’s Kiss
by Helle Faber
It’s morning in the midst of one of Russia’s giant woods. Huge portraits of Putin and Medvedev are displayed across the backdrop of a festival stage. Teenagers start appearing from nowhere until the space in front of the stage is packed. From the loud speakers a hip-hop song resounds with the chorus: “Nashi Nashi – the future belongs to us,” while a young man and woman direct the events in complete music award style. The youngsters get what they’ve come for: wholesale promises for the future, delivered in the perfect wrapping! The first guest on the stage, a woman in her mid twenties, tells the crowd how she landed her dream job in the political system that allows her to affect society every single day.
Co-production of ITVS International

We’re proud to announce the latest projects recently funded by ITVS. We look forward to working with each of the filmmakers to support their broadcast and continued effort to bring a diversity of programming to viewers.

Congratulations to all the filmmakers!

OPEN CALL

ADOPT ME, MICHAEL JORDAN
By Melanie Judd and Susan Motamed
Spanning four years in the life of one irrepressible girl, ADOPT ME, MICHAEL JORDAN offers an intimate look at the struggle to create an identity in the aftermath of adoption across race and culture.
A co-production of ITVS

IF A TREE FALLS
By Marshall Curry
A behind-the-curtain look at the Earth Liberation Front, the radical environmental organization that the FBI calls the “number one domestic terrorism threat” in America.
A co-production of ITVS

LIVES WORTH LIVING
By Eric Neudel
A story about one man’s struggle to survive after a spinal cord injury and the Disability Rights Movement.
A co-production of ITVS

MORE THAN A MONTH
By Shukree Hassan Tilghman
Shukree Hassan Tilghman, a 29-year-old African American filmmaker, is on a cross-country campaign to end Black History Month.
A co-production of ITVS and the National Black Programming Consortium

THE OATH
By Laura Poitras
Filmed in Yemen, THE OATH is a family drama about Al Qaeda and Guantanamo Bay Prison.

THE PROMISE OF FREEDOM
By Beth Murphy
A modern-day Oskar Schindler story about Kirk Johnson, a 26-year-old American aid worker, fighting to save thousands of Iraqis whose lives are in danger because they worked for the United States to help rebuild Iraq.
A co-production of ITVS

SEEDS
By Micha X. Peled
A look at the debate surrounding biotechnology and the future of farming.
A co-production of ITVS

SUN KISSED
By Maya Stark and Adi Lavy
When a Navajo couple embarks on a journey to discover more about their children’s rare genetic disorder, they uncover a controversial genetic trail and bravely tackle deep-rooted cultural taboos.
A co-production of ITVS

TALES OF THE WARIA
By Kathy Huang
Three transgender individuals in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim country, search for love and acceptance with unexpected results.
A co-production of ITVS

LINCS

AS NUTAYUNEAN – We Still Live Here
By Anne Makepeace
The Wampanoag nation of southeastern Massachusetts revives their native tongue, a language that was silenced for more than 100 years.
A co-production of ITVS in association with WGBY

WHAT A GHOST FORETELLS: The Making of the Opera
By Monica Lam, David Petersen and Fawn Ring
WHAT A GHOST FORETELLS follows the making of a contemporary opera written by Amy Tan with music by Stewart Wallace. The film charts a journey that begins in Tan’s personal stories and family secrets and evolves into a highly collaborative, visually stunning production that opens on the stage of the San Francisco Opera.
A co-production of ITVS, CAAM and KQED

BUILDING CHINA MODERN: I.M. Pei and the Transformation of an Ancient City
By Eugene Shirley
After 70 years in the U.S., renowned architect I.M. Pei returns to his ancestral home of Suzhou, China to build a modern museum in this ancient city.
A co-production of ITVS in association with South Carolina ETV

DEEP DOWN
By Sally Rubin and Jen Gilomen
Deep in the Appalachian mountains of eastern Kentucky, Beverly May and Terry Ratliff find themselves at the center of a contentious community battle over a proposed mountaintop removal coal mine.
A co-production of ITVS in association with Kentucky Educational Television

THE IMMIGRATION PROJECT
By Marco Williams
An investigation into migrant deaths along the U.S.-Mexico border and the efforts of the Mexican Consulate and the Medical Examiner to repatriate the remains back to Mexico.
A co-production of KUAT and ITVS

THE MUSIC’S GONNA GET YOU THROUGH
By Gabrielle Mullem
In New Orleans, a group of blind and visually-impaired teenagers from across the country gather to study with master musician Henry Butler at his creative music and jazz camp.
A co-production of ITVS in association with WLAE Educational Broadcasting Foundation, Inc.

THE WAY WE GET BY
By Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly
On call 24/7 for the past six years, three senior citizens have made history by greeting nearly one million U.S. troops at a tiny airport in Maine.
A co-production of ITVS in association with WGBH and Maine Public Broadcasting Network

EDF

COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS
By Benjamin Franzen and Kembrew McLeod
COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS examines the creative and commercial value of musical sampling, including the related debates over artistic expression, copyright law, and (of course) money.
A co-production of ITVS

NATIVE CENTURY
By Katahdin Productions
A four-part series that chronicles the unexpected history of Native American nations in the 20th century.
A co-production of ITVS in association with Native American Public Telecommunications

INTERNATIONAL CALL

74 SQUARE METERS (Chile)
By Tiziana Panizza and Paola Castillo
A social experiment that moves marginalized families into a middle class neighborhood in Valparaiso, Chile.
A co-production of Errante Producciones Limitada and ITVS International

THE LAST WHITE MAN STANDING (Kenya)
By Justin Webster, Mette Heide and Don Edkins
Tom Cholmondeley, heir to the largest white-owned estate in Kenya, stands accused of murdering a black poacher on his land. THE LAST WHITE MAN STANDING follows the ongoing case and gives an in-depth look at its socio-political context.
A co-production of Plus Pictures ApS and ITVS International

RODRIGUEZ (South Africa)
By Malik Bendjelloul
American music artist Rodriguez records an album in 1970 that flops but discovers 25 years later he’s more popular than the Rolling Stones in South Africa.
A co-production of HYSTERIA FILM AB, SVT and ITVS International

TEACHER (Vietnam)
By Leslie Wiener
The story of one man’s fight against AIDS in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and his attempt to help street children survive.
A co-production of Leslie Wiener an ITVS International

THE TEAM (Kenya)
By Patrick Reed
A look at a dramatic TV soap opera series created after Kenya’s violent 2007 presidential election that Kenyans hope will help bridge deep ethnic divisions.
A White Pine Pictures production in association with ITVS International

THIS IS MY PICTURE WHEN I WAS DEAD (Jordan)
By Mahmoud Al Massad
An imaginative look at what happens after four-year-old Bashir comes back to life after the assassination of him and his father, a top PLO lieutenant.
A co-production of iSee Film and ITVS International

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