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词条 Najwa Najjar
释义

  1. Early Life

  2. Filmography

  3. References

  4. External links

Najwa Najjar ({{lang-ar|نجوى نجار}}) is a film writer/director. Born to a Jordanian father and Palestinian mother, she began her career making commercials and has worked in both documentary and fiction since 1999. Her debut feature film Pomegranates and Myrrh picked up 10 international awards, sold worldwide and was released theatrically and screened at over 80 international festivals.[1] Her second film Eyes of a thief also is a multi award winning thriller based on a true story, and shot entirely in Palestinian Territories.[2] with Egyptian multi award-winning star actor and producer Khaled Abol Naga as the lead and the Algerian sensational singer Souad Massi debut as an actress, Eyes of a thief' was the official Palestinian submission to the 2014 87th Academy Awards (The Oscars).

Najjar's work includes several award-winning films also shown worldwide; Yasmine Tughani (2006), Naim and Wadee’a (1999), Quintessence of Oblivion (2000),[2] Blue Gold (2004), A Boy Called Mohamad (2002), and They Came from the East which opened the 2004 European Academy Awards.[3]

Najjar produced a collection of short films by international filmmakers Gaza Winter (2009) and produced a second long feature Eyes of A Thief, a Palestinian/Algerian/French/Icelandic co-production which received the support of Sundance Scriptwriting Lab, Sundance Duke Award, Dubai Film Connection, Jordan Film Fund and was a participant in the Rome International film Festival New Cinema Network.[4]

The 1999 documentary film Naim and Wadee’a was based on Najjar's family and includes the oral histories of Na’im Azar and Wadee’a Aghabi, a couple who were forced to leave their Jaffa home in 1948. The film won the Award for Films of Conflict and Resolution at the 2000 Hamptons International Film Festival.[5]

Najjar's first fictional film, Pomegranates and Myrrh, features a young Palestinian dancer who defends her family's land after her husband is sent to an Israeli prison.[6][7] According to Najjar, when the film was first screened in Ramallah there was public outcry by the Hamas Government in Gaza [8] over the film's portrayal of "what was deemed its 'unpatriotic' portrayal of an untrustworthy wife of a political prisoner."[9] At the Doha Tribeca Film Festival, the film won the Best Arab Film award.[10][11]

A speaker on numerous panels on cinema and a member of International Film Festival Juries, Najjar has also reviewed books, and her articles on Palestinian cinema have been published. She was an advisor and reader for the Rawi Sundance Lab for Arab scriptwriters, and organized seminars for Palestinian filmmakers, and recently gave a Directors Masterclass in Galway International Film Festival. Najjar lives in the Palestinian Territories.[12]

Early Life

Najjar has a BA in Political Science/Economics and did her MA in Film in Washington DC.

Filmography

  • Naim and Wadee’a (1999)
  • Quintessence of Oblivion (2000)
  • A Boy Named Mohamed (2001)
  • Blue Gold (2004)
  • They Came from the East (2004)
  • Yasmine Tughani (2006)
  • Pomegranates and Myrrh (2009)
  • Eyes of a Thief (2014)

References

1. ^{{cite news|title=Palestinian drama ‘Pomegranates and Myrrh’ opens in UAE at Eid|url=http://www.albawaba.com/business/pr/palestinian-drama-%E2%80%98pomegranates-and-myrrh%E2%80%99-opens-uae-eid-390303|newspaper=Al Bawaba|date=August 29, 2011}}
2. ^{{cite news|last=Najjar|first=Najwa|title=How cinema helped me to survive in Palestine|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2008/apr/18/howcinemahelpedmetosurviv|newspaper=The Guardian|date=18 April 2008}}
3. ^{{cite web|title=Najwa Najjar biography|url=https://www.festivalscope.com/director/najjar-najwa|publisher=Festival Scope|accessdate=20 November 2013}}
4. ^{{cite web|title=Fabbrica dei Progetti La Selezione del 2011|url=http://www.romacinemafest.it/tower-file-storage/cinema/10299/attachment/FILE1315484900181-16.pdf|publisher=Rome Film Festival|accessdate=20 November 2013}}
5. ^{{cite book|last=Farsoun|first=Samih K.|title=Culture and Customs of the Palestinians|year=2004|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Westport, Conn. [u.a.]|isbn=978-0-313-32051-4|page=121|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ntlybo9BEQC&lpg=PA121&dq=Najwa%20Najjar&pg=PA121#v=onepage&q&f=false}}
6. ^{{cite news|last=Anderson|first=John|title=Review: ‘Pomegranates and Myrrh’|url=https://variety.com/2009/film/reviews/pomegranates-and-myrrh-1200475326/|newspaper=Variety|date=July 15, 2009}}
7. ^{{cite news|last=Chaudhary|first=Suchitra Bajpai|title=My world: Film-maker Najwa Najjar|url=http://gulfnews.com/life-style/people/my-world-film-maker-najwa-najjar-1.864500|newspaper=Friday|date=September 16, 2011}}
8. ^{{cite news|last=Kuttab|first=Daoud|title=Palestinians Angry About Portrayal of Prisoners' Wife by Palestinian Filmmaker|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daoud-kuttab/palestinians-angry-about_b_182219.html|newspaper=Huffington Post|date=April 3, 2009}}
9. ^{{cite book|last=Ball|first=Anna|title=Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective|year=2012|publisher=Routledge|location=New York|isbn=978-0-415-88862-2|pages=70–71, 182–183|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=abv7kA6Y_LgC&lpg=PA182&dq=Najwa%20Najjar&pg=PA70#v=onepage&q=Najwa%20Najjar&f=false}}
10. ^{{cite news|last=Ebiri|first=Bilge|title=Doha-Tribeca Fest’s Six Best Middle Eastern Films|url=http://www.vulture.com/2009/11/doha-tribeca_fests_six_best_mi.html|newspaper=Vulture|date=November 4, 2009}}
11. ^{{cite news|last=Jaafar|first=Ali|title=Rab Pack: the Arab new wave|url=https://variety.com/2009/biz/news/rab-pack-the-arab-new-wave-1118012241/|newspaper=Variety|date=December 4, 2009}}
12. ^{{cite web|title=Najwa Najjar profile|url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/najwanajjar|publisher=The Guardian|accessdate=20 November 2013}}

External links

  • {{Twitter}}
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLlvKWu492I Interview with Najjar] at the 2009 Edinburgh International Film Festival
  • Women vs Occupation in Pomegranates and Myrrh
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