Antonia Caccia

I’m a documentary film director-producer from London. My first award winning film was about apartheid in South Africa in 1970. My work has been shown internationally and in Britain on the BBC and Channel 4. Between 1981-2000 I made four films about the plight of Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, and the Palestinians inside Israel.  The terrible events in Israel and Gaza in 2023/24 have aroused widespread interest in the Palestinian peoples’ history and their struggle against Israeli occupation. My hope is that making these old films available may add to a greater understanding of the lived experience of both the South African past and of the Palestinian people.

My other films include The Big ‘K’ (about the Yorkshire miners’ strike in 1974), Chimurenga:  The War in Zimbabwe (the fight for independence, 1977), Stories of Honour and Shame (Palestinian women in the Gaza strip, 1996), Bethlehem Diary (Palestinians during the second intifada in the runup to Millennium Christmas (2001).