The Filmmakers
Aisha Bain is the Asia Program Associate at Global Rights: Partners for Justice, where she works on women’s rights in India and environmental rights in Mongolia. She completed her Masters degree in the International Peace and Conflict Resolution Program in the School of International Service with a concentration in Human Rights at American University. Before arriving at AU, she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Madagascar and traveled throughout much of the Horn of Africa. She served as Deputy Director at the Center for the Prevention of Genocide where she worked extensively investigating and reporting the massacres in Darfur and Northern Uganda, and lobbying for international action. She has also conducted extensive field research in human trafficking in South East Asia in summer 2004.
Jen Marlowe is currently working on a new film shot in South Sudan in the summer of 2007, and a book and a play about Palestine and Israel. She is on the board of directors of “The Friends of Jenin Freedom Theatre” and is a founding member of the “Rachel’s Words” initiative. From 2000-2004, she coordinated and directed a conflict transformation program in Jerusalem, creating and implementing co-existence programs for hundreds of Palestinian and Israeli youth. In addition, she worked in conflict resolution with youth in Afghanistan and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and facilitated dialogue groups between youth from India and Pakistan, and Turkish and Greek Cypriot youth. Previously, Jen was the artistic director of Two Roads Theatre Ensemble, a theatre education company in Seattle, WA and a teaching artist at Seattle Children’s Theatre.
Adam Shapiro most recently served as Country Director in Afghanistan for the international human rights organization Global Rights. He is a Ph.D. candidate in International Relations at American University, and holds an MA in Politics from New York University and an MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University. Adam is a founding member of InCounter Productions which produced the documentary film, About Baghdad (Spring 2004), based on filming in Baghdad,Iraq in 2003. Adam is also a co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement in Palestine and lived and worked in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for three years. He has lived and worked throughout the Arab world and speaks Arabic. Adam serves on the Board of Directors of Partners for Peace and as a Member of the Executive Team of Imagine Life.
