ORANGE COUNTY, April 27th
The Arab Film Festival presents the West Coast Premiere of documentary SLINGSHOT HIP HOP at the Newport Beach Film Festival.
Filmmaker Jackie Reem Salloum will be present for a Q&A after the screening.
SLINGSHOT HIP HOP was selected for the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and as part of the Lincoln Center’s New Directors/New Films Series. The film was featured in the March issue of Vibe Magazine.
A new generation slings rhymes instead of rocks as Palestinian rappers form alternative voices of resistance within the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. Interweaving multiple stories of young Palestinians in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank, filmmaker Jackie Reem Salloum spotlights a vibrant hip-hop scene as emerging artists discover rap and employ it as a means to surmount age-old schisms deepened by occupation and poverty. (Sundance Film Festival)
Sunday, April 27th, 2008
4:30pm
Regency Lido Theater
3459 Via Lido
Newport Beach, CA
Tickets available starting April 4th at the Newport Beach Film Festival website.
