Tamika Reynolds
10-09-09
4:48pm
The first commercial Palestinian animation film ever was inspired by the death a young Palestinian girl. She died from breast cancer. Palestinian people are very sensitive when it comes to that topic. A common theme for Palestinian filmmaker is life and death but the subject of breast cancer struck accord because it was not from military attacks or because of war. The animation is a fictional story about a young seamstress you live in a Gaza refugee camp. The story goes on to show her struggles and humiliation from living Gaza in search a treatment from the very Palestinian doctors available. They named the film after the girl it was inspired by, Fatenah.
I chose this story for health because I don’t know about the Middle East but also I think that something that connects us all is health. Breast cancer is something that every country is battling with. I think this will be a very inspirational film. I didn’t even know there were Palestinian filmmakers. This article just made this world for me a little smaller. I am glad the filmmaker wanted to make something that was about natural life and not about just the horror of death. To think this is their first commercial animation, this will give a different perspective to it. I think that the young girl who died would feel great respect that something like this was created in her memory.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/10/07/palestinian.territories.animation.cancer/index.html
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