​Third World Cinema

 

The theme chosen for our film showing was Iranian films

specifically because it is a genre of film that our audience is

least likely to be familiar with. Moreover, our goal with the

screening of these movies was to show the audience

something that they had not seen before and

implant thoughts that they have never considered before

about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

Furthermore, the film was shown to a random audience

since every Tuesday the church

organizes a food drive, where random people sign in.

Therefore, based on our perspective of the

audience it mostly comprised of Hispanic seniors, ages 50

and up. Moreover, the event was held

in a small church called Puertas de Sion, located in

Miami Gardens. The films chosen by our

group were a short entitled “Israel and Palestine an

animated introduction” and “The Attack” by

Ziad Duoreiri. Therefore, the animated short gave the audience the background knowledge needed to fully understand “The Attack”, and displayed the information in a very entertaining

and clear way. In addition, “The Attack”, was a

politically neutral movie about a suicide

bombing, which was able to provoke thought in the audience

and accomplish our initial goal.

Evidence of this originated when one woman who got up to

talk Damaris about the issue, she

obviously was curious about the subject and at the same

time mad about the issue since she was a

Jewish citizen, as well so her opinion was completely

biased. In conclusion we were able to

show a group of people films that they have never seen

before and display to them a unique side

and our perspective on a very important issue.