Annemarie Jacir

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Annemarie Jacir
Actress Reem Abu Sbaih (left) and composer Kamran Rastegar (second left), with Jacir (right) at Cannes in 2003 for world premiere of like twenty impossibles
Occupation(s)Director, actress, poet, screenwriter
Years active1998–present
Websitewww.philistinefilms.com

Annemarie Jacir (

Arabic: آن ماري جاسر) is a Palestinian
filmmaker, writer, and producer.

Career

Filmmaking

Jacir has been working in independent cinema since 1998 and has written, directed and produced a number of award-winning films. Two of her films have premiered as Official Selections in Cannes, one in Berlin and in Venice, Locarno, Rotterdam, Toronto, and Telluride. All three of her feature films were selected as Palestine's Oscar Entry for Foreign Language Film. Her short film,

Film Comment Magazine.[1]

In 2007, Jacir shot the first feature film by a Palestinian woman director, Salt of this Sea, the story of a working-class American woman whose parents were Palestinian refugees, making her first return to her family's homeland.[2][3]

Her second work to debut in the

FIPRESCI award.[7] Salt of this Sea starred poet Suheir Hammad alongside Saleh Bakri in his first role on screen.[citation needed
]

Her second feature,

Asian Pacific Screen Awards. Working in both fiction and documentary, other films include Until When, A Few Crumbs for the Birds, which she also shot as cinematographer, and experimentala Post Oslo History.[citation needed
]

In 2011, Chinese director

London Film Festival.[citation needed
]

Poetry

Jacir's poetry and stories have been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including Mizna, the Crab Orchard Review, and The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology. She has read with poet Amiri Baraka. She has won several screenwriting awards and was a finalist for the Grand Prix du Meilleur Scenariste in Paris.[8]

Other roles

Jacir has served as a jury member to festivals including in Cannes in 2018 (joining the Un Certain Regard jury, presided by Puerto Rican/American actor Benicio del Toro) and the Berlin International Film Festival in 2020, which was presided over by English actor Jeremy Irons.[citation needed]

She is[when?] a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), and the Asian Pacific Screen Academy and a board member of Palestine Cinema Days and Alwan for the Arts, a cultural organization devoted to North African and Middle Eastern art. She is a founding member of the Palestinian Filmmakers' Collective, based in Palestine.[citation needed]

She has taught at

Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art & Research in her hometown of Bethlehem.[citation needed
]

Curator

She is chief curator and founder of the "Dreams of a Nation" Palestinian cinema project, dedicated to the promotion of Palestinian cinema.[9]

In 2003, she organized and curated the largest traveling film festival in Palestine, which included the screening of archival Palestinian films from Revolution Cinema. The festival took place in several Palestinian cities including Bethlehem, Ramallah, Gaza City, Nazareth, Jerusalem, and Nablus. [10]

[11]

Recognition and awards

Her 2012 film

Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards.[12]

Her 2017 film Wajib, starred Saleh Bakri opposite his father, veteran actor Mohammad Bakri. It won them 36 international awards including Best Film in Mar Del Plata, Dubai, Amiens, DC Film Festival, Kosovo and Kerala and the jury mention at the London BFI Festival. For Saleh and Mohammad Bakri's roles in the film, it won the Muhr Award for Best Actor together, and won Jacir the Muhr Award for Best Fiction Feature at the Dubai International Film Festival 2017.[13]

Jacir was named one of

Filmmaker magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Cinema in 2004.[14]

Filmography

See also

References

  1. ^ "Philistine Films". Archived from the original on March 14, 2022. Retrieved December 2, 2023.
  2. ^ "San Sebastian Film Festival". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2007-12-10.
  3. ^ Oumlil, Kenza (2016). "Re-Writing History on Screen: Annemarie Jacir's "Salt of This Sea."". Arab Studies Quarterly. 38 (3): 586–600 – via JSTOR.
  4. ^ 'Salt' to be Palestinian Oscar entry By Ian Mundell, Variety, Sep. 22, 2008
  5. ^ "DIFF Annemarie Jacir". Archived from the original on 2016-02-17. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
  6. ^ "Cinema In Motion Archive". Archived from the original on 2016-02-16. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  7. ^ Annemarie Jacir
  8. ^ Grand Prix du Meilleur Scenariste Archived November 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ Dreams of a Nation Palestinian cinema Archived December 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ [1] {{Coming Home: Palestinian Cinema |url= https://electronicintifada.net/content/coming-home-palestinian-cinema/6780 |date=December 30, 2007}
  11. ^ [2] {{A Palestinian Film Festival |url= https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2003/festival-reports/dreams_of_a_nation/ |date=March 15, 2003}
  12. ^ Meza, Ed (6 September 2012). "'When I Saw You' to be Palestinian Oscar entry". Variety. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  13. ^ Simon, Alissa (13 December 2017). "Palestinian Annemarie Jacir's 'Wajib' Wins Big at Dubai Festival". Variety. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  14. ^ "Annemarie Jacir". Center for Palestine Studies | Columbia University. 26 September 2016. Retrieved 20 December 2023.

Further reading

External links

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