Jocelyne Saab

[2] A reporter, photographer, scriptwriter, producer, director, artist and founder of the Cultural Resistance International Film Festival of Lebanon, Saab focused on the deprived and disadvantaged – from displaced peoples to exiled fighters, cities at war and a Fourth World without a voice.Her work is grounded in historic violence, and in an awareness of the actions and images required to document, reflect on and counteract it.[4] Her first job was hosting a pop music program on the national Lebanese radio station called "Marsipulami got blue eyes."[5] As a curator at Birkbeck, University of London noted: "These beautiful and moving films infuse their powerful documentary footage of daily life amid destruction and displacement with a poetic intensity that transcends the conflict and reaches beyond despair.[8] The film was banned in Egypt shortly before the premiere, Saab received death threats from fundamentalists.
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