Slingshot Hip Hop Trailer

Slingshot Hip Hop braids together the stories of young Palestinians living in Gaza, the West Bank and inside Israel as they discover Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and poverty. From internal checkpoints and Separation Walls to gender norms and generational differences, this is the story of young people crossing the borders that separate them

Featuring : DAM from Lyd PR (Palestinian Rapperz) from Gaza Abeer from Lyd Arapeyat from Akka Mahmoud Shalabi from Akka Also featured: WE7 from Nazareth and Ibrahim from Gaza

Director/Producer/Editor

Jackie Reem Salloum is a New York based artist and filmmaker. Drawing on her Palestinian and Syrian roots, her pop-infused work focuses on challenging the stereotypes of Arabs in the media. She has directed several shorts exploring this issue, including Planet of the Arabs, which received the International Editing Award at the 2005 CinemaTexas Film Festival and was an official selection in that years Sundance Film Festival. After receiving her MFA from New York University, Salloum began directing her first feature length documentary Slingshot Hip Hop. Five years in the making it made its premiere at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival-Documentary Competition. Salloums work is also the basis of a youth education program on Palestine, and she frequently speaks at universities and conferences internationally.

Producer

Rumzi Araj, a Palestinian-American, has worked with Salloum on many of her art and film projects and was an Associate Producer on the short film Planet of the Arabs, a 2005 Sundance selection. He is currently completing his law degree while pursuing his interest in film production.


Producer/Editor/Visual Effects Supervisor

Waleed Zaiter is an Arab-American multimedia artist born in Beirut,Lebanon. Growing up in the United States, he began his career as a street artist in Boston. He currently resides in NYC where he freelances as an animator. His work can be found

http://slingshothiphop.com/index.php

Category:

Music

Tags:

• slingshot
• hiphop
• Palestinian
• Philistine
• philistinian
• Falasteen
• arab
• rap
• gaza
• treu
• struggle
• israHell
• inhumanity

[8675oh9]

I'd think it was would be hard to pretend Muslims are oppressed minorities when there are over 1.3 BILLION muslims in the world, and Muslim nations own roughly 85 plus percent of the world's oil supply?

If you think Muslims have it bad in the West, you should also consider how non-Muslim westerners are treated in the middle east. Ask the Kurds, the Copts, or Jews and you might find you don't have it so bad.

[TrueHipHopFreeTheP]

@8675oh9 Thats lot of crap ! Who owns that oil ! A few people! You think all muslim have oil wells ????lol man ! And how do you think muslims are treaten in the west ! They are looked at as a danger ! And by the way this isnt about being muslim ! This is about being human! Do you claim palestinians arent uppressed in israel ??????if you do YOU ARE WRON! By the way i am german,white,and multiculturel ! And i aint no muslim ! Peace !

[TrueHipHopFreeTheP]

@8675oh9 and srry i react this late :)

[8675oh9]

Gurl,

Some Muslim nations are relatively more tolerant than others, but I am certain no Jew would agree with you that "Jews are treated as Kings and Queens in Arab lands."

In Israel, however, Arabs (men and WOMEN) have freedom to worship, write, assemble, vote & hold political office.

What Muslim land actually offers all these rights to Jews? And what would happen if a Jewish man wanted to marry a Muslim woman??? A Queen can marry whomever she wants to right?

[Catgurl87]

@8675oh9

How on earth did you come up with your assumptions?! Just to let you know, non muslims, are treated like kings and queens in Arab land, I know that as an Arab myself. Westerners and Europeans are treated so well , even better than the citizens of the country themselves! Go to Emirates, Kuwait, and those and You'll see. Arabs being discriminated is not to say that there are others who are not being discriminated. This video is based on 1 focused group, there's no need shift the message