April 28: Special Sneak Peek of the Film “Bridge over the Wadi,” and transcontinental discussion with director Barak Heymann
Indianapolis International Film Festival: Special, INVITATION ONLY Screening and Discussion This VERY SPECIAL presentation is BY INVITATION ONLY, and seating is very limited, so please plan to arrive on time. For more information or to reserve a spot, please contact Krista Hoffmann-Longtin, IIFF Board President, at 317-258-1823 or email to klongtin@iupui.edu. When: Saturday, April 28, at 12 pm,
Where: Screening and discussion will be held in IUPUI’s Office of International Affairs new Global Crossroads Laboratory (room 2132 in the Education and Social Work building, 902 W. New York Street). The Indianapolis International Film Festival will be hosting a sneak peek screening of “Bridge Over the Wadi” and a video conference discussion with the filmmaker, Barak Heymann, LIVE from
Tel
Aviv
University.
The discussion will be lead by
John Clark, founder of Provocate, and Patricia Biddinger, Director of International Student Recruitment & Retention for IUPUI. More about the Film: In “Bridge Over the Wadi”, fifty Arab and fifty Jewish children attend the same school, in Hebrew and in Arabic. Two years after the resurge of the Second Intifada riots, a group of Arab and Jewish parents decide to establish a joint bi-national, bi-lingual school in the Arab Ara village. The film follows the school’s first year and shows how fragile the attempt is to create an environment of co-existence against the backdrop of the complicated reality, through the personal stories of its characters. Patricia E. Biddinger is Director of International Student Recruitment & Retention for IUPUI. She has thirty years’ experience in international education in the Indiana
University system, involving assignments in Bloomington, IUPUI,
Malaysia and at USIA. In her current work in international student recruitment, she has been traveling, particularly to the Gulf States of the Middle East, Latin America, and
Asia. She has served as Coordinator for Iranian Student Concerns for NAFSA: Association of International Educators and spent two years (1998-2000) in residence in
HoChiMinh City, Viet Nam working in education and with the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization.
John Clark is a Senior Fellow at Sagamore Institute and founder of Provocate.
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