The Filmmakers
Aisha Bain is the Asia, North Africa, and Eastern European Program Officer at Global Rights: Partners for Justice, where she works on women’s rights in India, and the Maghreb, anti-discrimination in the Balkans, 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 directing “Rebuilding Hope”, a documentary film about South Sudan and is writing a book and a play about Palestine and Israel. She is on the board of directors for Friends of the Jenin Freedom Theatre. 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 facilitated dialogue groups between youth from Bosnia-Herzegovina, India and Pakistan, and Turkish and Greek Cypriot youth. Her writing can be found online in The Nation, Tomdispatch.com, CommonDreams.org, Alternet and Counterpunch.
Adam Shapiro is a documentary filmmaker, human rights activist and Palestinian rights activist. His latest film is a documentary series on Palestinian refugees all over the world called “Chronicles of a Refugee,” which was broadcast on Al-Jazeera Documentary Channel in May 2009. Adam and a colleague are working in an independent effort to help find durable solutions for the Palestinian refugees of Iraq, who are currently trapped in refugee camps on the border of Iraq and Syria. He previously served as Country Director in Afghanistan for the internationally renowned human rights organization Global Rights.
Adam holds a MA in Politics from New York University and a MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University. He is a founding member of InCounter Productions which produced the award-winning documentary film, ‘About Baghdad’ (Spring 2004). He has also directed and produced ‘darfur diaries: message from home’ (Fall 2005), and ‘becoming nadya’ (short film, 2007). His films have screened in hundreds of film festivals all over the world and have been broadcast on television in the Middle East, Europe and the US.
In February 2009, Adam joined a National Lawyer’s Guild delegation to the Gaza Strip to document war crimes and collect evidence. The final report “Onslaught: Israel’s Attack on Gaza and the Rule of Law” and a short video are available on the NLG website. Adam is co-author of the book, “Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival” (Nation Books).
In Palestine, Adam was a co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement and lived and worked in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for three years.
He serves as a member of the BADIL Legal Support Network, on the Advisory Board of KinderUSA, and was named an Honorary Veteran for Peace in 2002.
