“Naila and the Uprising” has found a home. Julia Bacha’s most recent project, a documentary about nonviolent Palestinian movement the First Intifada, has been nabbed by Fork Films and THIRTEEN/WNET, Deadline reports. The Just Vision film will air on PBS in 2018 as part of the network’s four-part Women, War & Peace II series.
The documentary centers on Naila Ayesh, a Palestinian woman from Gaza who faces “an impossible choice between love, family, and freedom,” its synopsis details. Naila ends up “joining a clandestine network of Palestinian women who shake the Israeli occupation and put Palestinians on the map for the first time.”
An unfinished version of “Naila and the Uprising” screened earlier this year at the Athena Film Festival, the annual celebration of women onscreen and off co-founded by Women and Hollywood founder/publisher Melissa Silverstein.
Born in Brazil, Bacha is a writer, director, editor, and cinematographer. Her credits include “My Neighbourhood,” “Budrus,” “Encounter Point,” and “Control Room.” She serves as creative director at Just Vision, an organization dedicated to ending the occupation in Palestine and achieving peace between Palestine and Israel.
“Naila and the Uprising” will screen at DOC NYC on November 12 and make its international debut at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam later the same month.
