To Shoot an Elephant Spain
2009, 112min.
Producer: Alberto Arce, Directors: Alberto Arce, Mohammad Rujailah, Script: Alberto Arce, Miquel Marti Freixas, Sound: Francesc Gosalves, Editors: Alberto Arce, Miquel marti Freixas
The title is inspired by an essay of George Orwell. The documentary To Shoot an Elephant is an eyewitness account from the Gaza Strip. December 27th, 2008, Operation Cast Lead. Twenty-one days of “shooting elephants”. Urgent, insomniac, dirty, shuddering images – of the few foreigners who had decided, and succeeded in staying inside Gaza Strip ambulances, together with Palestinian civilians.
Awards
FIPRESCI Award (Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival), Best Director (dei Popoli International Documentary FF, Florence), Red-Vectracom Award (Cinéma du Réel Festival International de Films Documentaires, Paris), A Matter of ACT Documentary Award (Movies that Matter Festival, the Hague) | Arce, AlbertoAlberto Arce
Journalist and documentary maker, has collaborated and collaborates with different centres of investigation such as the Instituto de Estudios sobre Conflictos y Acción Humanitaria (Conflict and humanitarian action study Institute), with numerous independent newspapers such as Diagonal, El Viejo Topo or Directa as well as more coventional papers like El Mundo. It was these reports for this paper that won the Mediterranean Journalist Award Anna Lindh. This being for the recognition of his work along with the Premio Joan Gomis de Periodismo Solidario (Joan Gomis prize for solidarity in journalism) which he was awarded in 2007.
Filmography
Nablus, la ciudad fantasma (2004), Pacifists in Palestina (along with Maria Moreno, 2005), To Shoot an Elephant (2009) |
